When Team U.S.A.'s track & field athletes line up at the Paris Olympics this summer, you might wonder whether some of them are auditioning for a Baywatch reboot. On Thursday, Nike revealed the first look at the kits that U.S. track and field athletes will wear in Paris. And while the men's design looks pretty standard, the women's one-piece speed suit features a surprisingly high-cut bikini line that Instagram commenters immediately began ripping into.
The Olympics is about money.
Indeed, the IOC recently admitted as much when they said they would start sharing some of that money with the people they have been exploiting over the decades.
Track and field becomes first sport to pay prize money at Olympics. Paris gold medalists get $50,000
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... 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.
The move is a symbolic break with the amateur past of the Olympics in one of the games' most-watched events.
The governing body of athletics said it was setting aside $2.4 million to pay the gold medalists across the 48 men's, women's and mixed events on the track and field program for this year's Paris Olympics. Relay teams will split the $50,000 between their members. Payments for silver and bronze medalists are planned to start from the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe told reporters that the move is meant "to recognize that the revenue share that we receive is in large part because our athletes are the stars of the show."
The prize money will come out of the share of Olympic revenue that that the IOC distributes to World Athletics.
However, the move could upset the balance of power in the Olympic movement ahead of the Paris Games. Coe said World Athletics only gave the International Olympic Committee "a heads-up" of its intentions on Wednesday morning, shortly before it published its announcement. ...
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