I just came across an article from the Ugandan press where it says people are upset that the World JR 10k champ Joshua Cheptegei is racing a US road race for possibly $30,000 when he could instead be running the World University Games.
The outrage to me is laughable. As if winning the WUGs brings back lots of prestige to the country.
But what road race in the US has a $30,000 first prize and is held on a Thursday?
Boilermaker is this weekend but it offers $7,000 for first.
Anyone got an idea?