This year, our nation’s Olympians brought home 46 gold medals from the Olympic Games in Rio.As a bonus to retaining the symbolic top prize, each gold medal winner was also awarded $25,000 per gold medal by the U.S. Olympic Committee.Believe it or not, these super humans are “just like us” and will now face the IRS regarding their hard-earned Olympic prizes and cash. Olympians are taxed on both the value of their medals and the cash bonuses they receive.Surprise, gold medals are not actually made of gold …