World Athletics said Wednesday it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris, making track and field the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics.
MONACO -- Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris.
"While it is impossible to put a marketable value on winning an Olympic medal, or on the commitment and focus it takes to even represent your country at an Olympic Games, I think it is important we start somewhere and make sure some of the revenues generated by our athletes at the Olympic Games are directly returned to those who make the Games the global spectacle that it is," World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said in a statement.
Athletes will have to pass"the usual anti-doping procedures" at the event before they receive the money, World Athletics added.
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