Athletes in plenty of sports compete for plenty of cash
They compete for a trophy, a ring, the chance to be called a champion and, sometimes, a place in history. Most of the world's best athletes in all sorts of sports compete for cold, hard cash, too. After more than 100 years of striving to earn Olympic gold — but nothing else from the folks organizing the event — track and field athletes at the Paris Games will join that money-making club thanks to the sport's governing body, World Athletics.
More money for Olympic athletes, especially the smaller sports, would be great.” This also has attracted the attention of the leaders in some of those sports. While World Athletics president Sebastian Coe portrayed the move as one of simple fairness — the Olympics are a multibillion-dollar business; the athletes should get their share — some in his world see it as a calculated play to boost his profile for a potential IOC presidency bid.
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