ggsdcvhhf wrote:
Track and field has about 20 events, if you double that for both genders, you have 40 events. If you took the top 10 in each event that's 400 athletes.
I don't know where usatf spends their 15 million. If you gave even cash to the top 10 athletes in 40 different events, that's $37,500 per athlete. This list doesn't even include college athletes because they can't accept money.
Where is the breakdown where this cash is going? I don't think many athletes feel they are supported 37,500 by usatf
Why do people forget the USATF cover 5 sports
- track and field
-mountain/trail/ultra
-road running
-race walking
-cross country
Plus you have youth, masters, elite and club
No all don't have the same # of events as track but you can quickly see how the pie gets divided pretty fast.
You only wanna spend most of the $$ in a few elites in track? You wanna spend every cent taken in a given year?
People need to really think before proposing such nonsense.