Pre Classic offered Karsen Warholm 300k kroner to race, he said no....

You’ve not been paying attention if you think 2 x world champion, first under 46, and Olympic gold in the greatest 400mh race ever run is “15 minutes of fame”.

I don’t think he cares about Nikes meet or the footwear company battles one bit. Does Puma even sponsor rival meets? He’s not contractually obligated like Nike athletes and it doesn’t make sense to go to the West Coast if he’s not fully fit. It’d be great if there was more of league aspect with track with required meetings for athletes and really loaded meets, but unfortunately it’s not the case.

I suspect if he was offered $75-$100k net, he would travel and use it as a "rust buster." Don't be surprised if he races the same weekend as the Eugene DL

As usual, what are you on about?

Im not sure about that. He does his rust busters in training, he don't want to travel 15 hours to be beaten.

The subject line originally had it spelled as Warhol instead of Warholm. rojo or someone must have fixed it.

Yeah that 15 hour flight and slight jet lag that wears off in a day.... is going to really destroy his dreams at world championships months from now.....

I take it you know nothing about being a high level athlete. 2 day lost to travel (there and back), three days lost to competition (slight taper, competition, easy day after competition) = 5 days of training lost. Added risk of becoming sick. High risk of losing his winning streak. All that for a competition that doesnt matter at all and 30k. No thx.

It’s called keeping your eye on the prize

“In a day”? Hardly. Still covid protocols flying into USA fran Norway as well.
It’s a bit different at that level than preparing for your neighborhood 5k.

As said earlier, he isn't a Nike athlete, so why would he want to run a Nike meet this early in the year? Lots of DL meets in Europe. If Rai wants to meet him in a race HE can come to Europe - KW is the king, Rai the pretender, until proven otherwise.

I would rather wait until World's for them to race anyway - you can't run like that more than once a year likely (if again). Build the anticipation with something on the line besides the time.

So 30k is really not a large appearance fee for a WR holder of his stature. So Bolt was a massive outlier in terms of appearance money pulling in upwards of six figures for appearance fees alone in his hey-day, but even going back to the era of Marion Jones, Maurice Greene etc, they were making 50+ to appear in Europe. Sure the 400mH isn't the 100m but this guy is definitely one of the faces of World Athletics in the same way the aforementioned were 25 years ago. I don't think it's a solid offer for him tbh.

30k for a man who held two back to back World championship medals in the 400 hurdles ? So let’s say it’s a non world championship year and he competed in 10 big name races . He would only get 300k? No wonder track is dying. I’m sure now he commands twice those appearance fees

Well he is Norwegian, so I'm guessing they get taxed more. It is his choice and he said no.....big deal.

So you're sh*tting on your own guy, Jonathan Gault?? Wow.

Not really that interesting, to be honest. He was offered $30,000 to run a race NOT in his prime. After taxes it's $15,000 and what does a flight cost from Norway......$4000? He got offered $11,000 to race......no thanks.

Next time I'll talk to my buddy Frank. Frank will make him run.

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