Five-time Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave has warned paying prize money to athletics gold medallists at Paris 2024 will divide athletes.
Five-time Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave has warned that paying prize money to athletics gold medallists at Paris 2024 will create "an us and them situation" between sports.
Redgrave, who won rowing gold medals at five successive Olympic games between 1984 and 2000, said: "All those gold medallists in athletics are capable of earning significant money before and certainly after Paris so you’re giving money to people who already have it. The International Olympic Committee does not award prize money but distributes funding through international federations and national Olympic committees .
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