...said in a recent interview for a Czech magazine. And you wonder, "why are there so many more good Russian women runners than men runners?"http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5368377
"PRIZE MONEY
Per each event discipline at each of the 14 meetings
All 32 disciplines have the same prize money with a total of 30,000 USD x 16 = 480‘000 USD per meeting
Place - Prize Money
• 1. 10,000 USD
• 2. 6000 USD
• 3. 4000 USD
• 4. 3000 USD
• 5. 2500 USD
• 6. 2000 USD
• 7. 1500 USD
• 8. 1000 USD
+ rewards for 9th - 12th place finishers in distance races and 9th lane runners in sprints.
Combine the meeting prize money with the Diamond Race cash, and the IAAF Diamond League is offering a total of 8 Million USD in prize money in 2013...
Winners of each Diamond Race receive a 40,000 USD cash prize and a spectacular Diamond Trophy..."
And what about a plasticine figure of Lamine Diack in addition?
Whom do they want to attract with such a prize money? Homeless people?!
Only the average wage in the English Premier League is about 1.500.000 GBP (more than 2.300.000 USD). The total amount of money spent on players' salaries during the 2011/12 season was 1.660.000.000 GBP! (2,6 billion USD)
So, four average players in EPL earn more money than all athletes on the Diamond League throughout the whole year!!!