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World Athletics To Award Prize Money To Olympic Gold Medalists

World Athletics introduces prize money for Olympic gold medalists in 2024 to recognize athletes' contributions. Mixed reactions from athletes and stakeholders.

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World Athletics introduces prize money at the Olympics; Paris winners to get $50,000

World Athletics introduces prize money for Olympic gold medalists, marking a historic shift in amateur sports.

The Hindu

World Athletics will pay $50,000 to Olympic gold medalists in track and field events

The prizes, which will also go to the winners of the marathon and race walk, come as the Olympic Games have shifted away from amateurism. Many medalists already earn bonuses from their home countries.

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Gold medal for politics: why Olympic prize money is a smart move by Seb Coe

The $50,000 is unlikely to change athletes’ motivation while Seb Coe, the head of World Athletics, is a likely candidate for IOC president in 2025

The Guardian - UK

Athletics to introduce prize money at Paris Olympics

World Athletics will introduce prize money for track and field gold medallists at the Paris Olympics.

AAP

‘Mum fought like a tigress to stop me going into care’: Jason Wilsher-Mills on turning his childhood paralysis into art

At 11, the artist was struck with a condition that paralysed him from the neck down. His new exhibition recalls years of hospitals, family love, and fighting with cinema managers

The Guardian - UK

Rob Mcelhenney To Produce Documentary On Controversial Enhanced Games Event

Rob McElhenney to produce a documentary on the controversial Enhanced Games competition for athletes using performance-enhancing drugs.

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Sebastian Coe vows Enhanced Games athletes would be ‘banned for long time’

The World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has hit out at plans for an Enhanced Games, that would allow athletes to take steroids

The Guardian - UK

Kenya Mourns World Marathon Record Holder's Tragic Death

Kenya mourns the loss of world marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum in a tragic car crash. Calls for better protection and support for athletes grow louder.

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Kenya Bids Solemn Farewell To Marathon Sensation Kiptum

Top athletes and dignitaries joined hundreds of mourners at the funeral on Friday of Kenya's world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum in the nation's athletics heartland where he was born, trained and died.

International Business Times

Kenyan Marathon Sensation Kiptum To Be Laid To Rest

Kenya's world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum will be laid to rest Friday in the nation's athletics heartland after the 24-year-old died in a car accident.

International Business Times

Tearful Tributes For Kenyan Marathon Prodigy Kiptum

Hundreds of mourners paid an emotional tribute on Thursday to Kenya's world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, ahead of his funeral in the nation's athletics heartland.

International Business Times

Marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum dies in road accident aged 24

World marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum has died in a road accident in Kenya at the age of 24. Read further on Dynamite News:

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World marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum dies in road accident

World marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach Gervais Hakizimana died in a tragic traffic accident.

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Kenya’s world-record marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum killed in car crash

Kiptum, who exploded onto the marathon scene in October, was the overwhelming favourite to win the Paris Olympics.

International Business Times

Marathon World Record-holder Kelvin Kiptum Killed In Car Crash In Kenya

Marathon world record-holder and Paris Olympic favourite Kelvin Kiptum died in a car crash in western Kenya, police said Monday.

WEKU

Kelvin Kiptum, men's marathon world record holder, dies in a car crash

World Athletics confirmed the 24-year-old died in his native Kenya alongside his coach, Gervais Hakizimana.

International Business Times

Pressure On Paris Games 'To Kickstart New Olympic Golden Era'

The Paris Games has the chance to "kickstart a resurgence of the Olympic brand" following the last two Covid-affected editions and the doping-blighted 2014 Sochi Winter Games, former IOC marketing executive Terrence Burns has told AFP. With just six months to go to the opening ceremony in the French capital,…

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French Gloom Clouds Paris Olympics, Six Months From Start

Political bickering, ongoing grumbling about ticket prices and disruption to everyday life are souring the mood in the build-up to the Paris Olympics this July -- something organisers blame on typical French pessimism.

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Paris hoteliers under fire for massive mark-ups at Olympics opening gala

The affordability of next year's Olympic Games in Paris was again under the spotlight after a consumers' group highlighted average prices of 1,000 euros in hotels near the route of the opening ceremony in July.

The Guardian - UK

Thursday briefing: Junior doctors strike to ‘save’ NHS

In today’s newsletter: Patients in England have been warned of serious disruption as junior doctors begin one of the most devastating strikes in NHS history

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Controversy lingers as Paris Olympics push ahead with surfing tower

Paris Olympics organizers face opposition from the International Surfing Association over the construction of a tower at the surfing venue in Tahiti. Despi...

The Guardian - UK

Paris Olympics chief defends prices and insists tickets are cheaper than London

The head of the Paris Olympics, Tony Estanguet, has hit back at Sebastian Coe’s comments that tickets are too expensive by claiming they are cheaper than London 2012

The Independent UK

New tower at surfing venue in Tahiti blowing up again as problem issue for Paris Olympic organizers

Organizers of the Paris Olympics say work will continue on a new tower for judges and TV cameras at the surfing venue in Tahiti

Radio France Internationale

Athletics supremo Coe hits out at high ticket prices at Paris Olympics

Organisers of next year's Olympic Games in Paris were under pressure on Tuesday to reconsider the cost of tickets during the two-week extravaganza following a warning from top athletics administrator Sebastian Coe that high prices could leave embarrassing gaps in stadiums.

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