Farah Gave up an estimated $115,000 by not running in Birmingham

Isn't Mo a plastic Brit at his root?

wejo wrote:

Interesting not in the Telegraph article on the homepage "Farah was due to be paid an estimated £75,000 to run three and three-quarter laps of the track at the Alexander Stadium"

£75,000= $115,000

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/athletics/drained-mo-farah-returns-to-us-as-birmingham-fans-vent-fury-10303663.html

Shows how serious these allegations are if he's willing to forego $115k. Everyone is debating whether they would have run or not, but I think you have factor in you'd reportedly get paid $115,000 if you run.

Because that's what champions do!

Mo's Money wrote:

Mo also made 250k pounds for running a half-a-thon. That was in 2013.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286297/Mo-Farah-VERY-ambitious-wife-dash-cash-risks-tarnishing-Olympic-hero.html

Personally, I find it disgusting that one athlete commands so much while other athletes suffer financially.

Welcome to capitalism!

Do you miss the "state amateurs" of USSR and GDR? I don't.

importedmo wrote:

Isn't Mo a plastic Brit at his root?

Nope.

Fstag is a Somali pirate thieving from hardworking British athletes. I hope he gets busted so people realize how many African athletes are actually dirty.

Damn, this is why I wanna b Mo Farah when I grow up

I haven't said anything. And I haven't been following what has been going on.

It would be nice if this were all a musical and the tears were fake. I've known the coach for a really long time. I've loved him for a really long time. My heart didn't care much about my company today.

It is time for me to grow up. Women are left all the time. People don't tell the truth. That's the real world. Being in Never Never Land hurts. A lot.

I want to be a wife and a mother in real life. Life is short. I have to go.

WADA needs to react.

Late withdrawals should trigger an automatic visit from the WADA Pee Posse.

In 2013 WADA budget was 228milion $US and did about 270000 tests. Back of the envelope math says that's about 850 a test

I'd bet the appearance promotional fee contract for the big name athletes has part of the fee in nonrefundable form-after all the meet gets to use the name in pre-meet publicity. So create a $1000 fee payable to WADA for late withdrawal.

Mo's Money wrote:

Mo also made 250k pounds for running a half-a-thon. That was in 2013.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286297/Mo-Farah-VERY-ambitious-wife-dash-cash-risks-tarnishing-Olympic-hero.html

Personally, I find it disgusting that one athlete commands so much while other athletes suffer financially.

I agree, and with the Equal Pay poster.

The fact that athletes still compete for FREE and DL meets is atrocious.

Obviously the big names deserve bonuses for drawing the house/crowds, but they can't race without a full field, and knowing a guy like Nick Symmonds has always had to appear for free, it's a scam, baby.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Mo's Money wrote:

Mo also made 250k pounds for running a half-a-thon. That was in 2013.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286297/Mo-Farah-VERY-ambitious-wife-dash-cash-risks-tarnishing-Olympic-hero.html

Personally, I find it disgusting that one athlete commands so much while other athletes suffer financially.

That really is all athletics. I know a guy around where I live who is going to the olympic trials, and he's a phenomenal athlete, but not world class. He made 18,000 dollars his best year, the year he qualified for the trials. Moreover, look at all of the football players that play the preseason, drop a pass or two and are cut and their careers are over. Pretty dangerous game.

A Duck wrote:

Mo's Money wrote:

Mo also made 250k pounds for running a half-a-thon. That was in 2013.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286297/Mo-Farah-VERY-ambitious-wife-dash-cash-risks-tarnishing-Olympic-hero.html

Personally, I find it disgusting that one athlete commands so much while other athletes suffer financially.

I agree, and with the Equal Pay poster.

The fact that athletes still compete for FREE and DL meets is atrocious.

Obviously the big names deserve bonuses for drawing the house/crowds, but they can't race without a full field, and knowing a guy like Nick Symmonds has always had to appear for free, it's a scam, baby.

My immediate reaction to the stuff about Symmonds was "His agent isn't doing a very good job for him."

I really don't know the ins and outs of the pro T&F world, but I gather Symmonds agent is Chris Layne, and it doesn't look like Mr Layne quite has the clout at the moment to do much for Symmonds. Layne has an interesting client list - see

. Lot of recognizable names but I don't see anyone who's currently the kind of "must have" headliner that gives an agent like, say, Ricky Simms the leverage to get good treatment for clients at the level of a Symmonds.

Right now it seems like T&F works out well for the big shoe companies [e.g. Nike, Puma, adidas], the major agents [e.g. Ricky Simms, Jos Hermens], the major meets [DL and similar], the major national governing bodies [e.g. USATF, UKA] and the major stars [e.g. Bolt, Farah] and not so well for other stake holders [smaller shoe/apparel companies like Saucony, NB and Oiselle; pro athletes not at the headliner level, lesser agents, etc.]

Mo is making multi-millions per year. Seems to be well over two million just in appearance fees. That means he is making 100x the amount of an Olympic trials athlete. I can't think of any other sport where one of the top athletes makes that much more than a very good athlete. In the NBA the average salary is $4-5 million, and top players make $20 million. That's 5x as compared to more than 100x.

100x plus Mo wrote:

Mo is making multi-millions per year. Seems to be well over two million just in appearance fees. That means he is making 100x the amount of an Olympic trials athlete. I can't think of any other sport where one of the top athletes makes that much more than a very good athlete. In the NBA the average salary is $4-5 million, and top players make $20 million. That's 5x as compared to more than 100x.

A DL meet is probably more like a Hollywood movie than it is like an NBA team. Also, if you look at total comp [salary, endorsements, etc.] of a top NBA star as compared to total comp of some guy who started on a good D1 team and is now playing in, say, Turkey, you'd probably see a ratio of at least 100x.

Mo did not want to get booed or have some fan waive a "Dopers Go Home" poster at him when he got camera time at the end of the race. He was simply protecting his brand and hoping that the furor will die down by the next time he is scheduled to race.

Think about wrote:

the pay differential between top and merely very very good makes the incentive to cheat so appealing. How do you even survive being merely very very good?

I think it was Letsrun who did a very good article a year or two ago describing exactly this problem with some vague salary figures.

If the IAAF could ever be well managed with some transparency, they would need to address this issue to grow the sport.

dkny64 wrote:

100x plus Mo wrote:

Mo is making multi-millions per year. Seems to be well over two million just in appearance fees. That means he is making 100x the amount of an Olympic trials athlete. I can't think of any other sport where one of the top athletes makes that much more than a very good athlete. In the NBA the average salary is $4-5 million, and top players make $20 million. That's 5x as compared to more than 100x.

A DL meet is probably more like a Hollywood movie than it is like an NBA team. Also, if you look at total comp [salary, endorsements, etc.] of a top NBA star as compared to total comp of some guy who started on a good D1 team and is now playing in, say, Turkey, you'd probably see a ratio of at least 100x.

No, because your friend who qualified for the Olympic Trials is not playing basketball overseas. He would be an above average player in the NBA.

A typical LRC idiot wrote:

Mo's Money wrote:

Mo also made 250k pounds for running a half-a-thon. That was in 2013.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286297/Mo-Farah-VERY-ambitious-wife-dash-cash-risks-tarnishing-Olympic-hero.html

Personally, I find it disgusting that one athlete commands so much while other athletes suffer financially.

Welcome to capitalism!

Do you miss the "state amateurs" of USSR and GDR? I don't.

This is not captilasm it's a monopoly. Personally I don't watch races with Mo in them becasue of the NOP doping (thyroid or otherwise) issues so from my point of view he is driving viewer numbers down. Plus ~4 min 1500m runners being given a ton of cash and contracts just because they are women while some 3-3X 1500m runner or low 13 min 5000m runner is being paid nothing in a DL meet. Ridiculous.

Mo money mo problems