Anyone who says track does not pay does not know track. The best make a lot of money and there are more opportunities to call yourself a pro than most other sports.
Anyone who says track does not pay does not know track. The best make a lot of money and there are more opportunities to call yourself a pro than most other sports.
Bolt turned up in Manchester (England) in May last year, four days after having stitches removed from his foot after his road accident, to run a ‘street race’ over 150 mts, run on some sort of temporary surface laid down for that event.
Pouring with rain for most of the day, it eased just before the race, but still, such is his fame, thousands turned up just the see the great man.
No one would have been surprised had he just gone though the motions considering the conditions, but he was awesome, leaving the admittedly weak opposing in his wake, he ran an incredible 14.34!
Just be grateful that we have in our sport right now, at least keeping athletics in the forefront of public perception - one of the most naturally gifted and charismatic sportsman in the history of modern sports.
runn wrote:
Anyone who says track does not pay does not know track. The best make a lot of money and there are more opportunities to call yourself a pro than most other sports.
There's relatively good money for the people at the very top. The amount of money in sport hasn't changed very much in recent years, but more of it is going to fewer people, like Bolt. When Ostrava pays Bolt $300,000 to show up, it leaves little for everything else in the meet.
Keep in mind that Bolt still makes a fraction of what LeBron James or some other team sport superstar makes.
i run a 10k at that rate and retire without ever holding a full time job lol
ILoveTrack wrote:
Yes but this is for at most a few hours of work. Pre race interviews, warming up, competing in the race, post race interviews and signing autographs. Not bad, not bad.
So who exactly is paying for all the years of training if not those who pay to have him race in front of fans?
lol at you wrote:
I won't make 300k in my lifetime.
How's life under the bridge these days?
30k x 10 years is 300k. That ain't nuttin.
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Are you talking about that as the amount of capital you own or how much you make in a year?
Bolt is getting that in a day. He's going to be getting many other paychecks.
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It's not one day of work. Its months and years of prep. Plus he has to travel for more than a day to be sure his body is going to be caught up and on schedule. If he is attempting a world record this "Pay Day", could be as much as a month away from home. Now I doubt he is taking a 300 that serious but all the same. Oh and one more thing I don't think he wants to go out and look bad so serious or not he is going to WORK.
dumbass wrote:
Are you talking about that as the amount of capital you own or how much you make in a year?
Bolt is getting that in a day. He's going to be getting many other paychecks.
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It's not one day of work. Its months and years of prep. Plus he has to travel for more than a day to be sure his body is going to be caught up and on schedule. If he is attempting a world record this "Pay Day", could be as much as a month away from home. Now I doubt he is taking a 300 that serious but all the same. Oh and one more thing I don't think he wants to go out and look bad so serious or not he is going to WORK.[/quote]
Thanks for the response, since you completely missed the point. Unless of course you're trying to say that it's routine for people to make that in one paycheck? If that's the case then you're just straight up foolish.
I received a $10x,xxx check as downpayment for a consulting project . I put in in with my normal weekly bank deposit and the teller went batshirt over it. She called her supervisor and made a whole big thing outta it. The mgr said `enter it like any other check` turned shaking her head and walked away.
yup big money aint what it used to be.
Anyone trying to justify what athletes make, not just track but generally pro athletes relative to other professions because the athlete spends years and months honing a skill needs to also explain why the engineer or doctor or laywer or analyst or educator should not also have as big a pay day. People in those professions also spend years training and retraining, developing their skill and with few exceptions do they make multi million dollar salaries or have $300,000 day payouts. Pro sports is like the
entertainment business and pays big bucks. I'm frankly glad to see a track guy doing well in this regard since track has long been at the bottom
of the totem pole. But is it fair that the pro athlete in most sports draws a payday several multiples more than folk in other professions? Probably not but who says life has to be fair.