Athletics-Athletics' Olympic prize money plan unfair to other sports, Redgrave says


FILE PHOTO: The Olympics rings and the logos of the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Games are pictured on the Pulse building, the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee, in Saint-Denis near Paris, France, March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq

(Reuters) - World Athletics' (WA) decision to give prize money to Olympic gold medallists is unfair to other sports that cannot afford to do the same, Britain's five-times Olympic rowing champion Steve Redgrave said.

Athletics became the first sport to offer prize money to Olympic champions when WA President Sebastian Coe announced on Wednesday that gold medallists in Paris this year will each earn $50,000.

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