Olympic Champion Rips Into World Athletics Over Grave Ultimate Snub
- The inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship begins Friday in Budapest, featuring 381 top-ranked athletes from 65 federations competing for a $10m prize pot over three days.
- World Athletics president Sebastian Coe created the biennial, invitational format to ensure every season culminates with a 'major global championship' offering 'real meaning' for athletes and broadcasters.
- Winners pocket $150,000, the largest prize in track history, more than double last year's World Championships offering, with every athlete earning money down to $2,000 for 16th place.
- Hurdles star Karsten Warholm described the late-season schedule as 'chaos,' while world triple jump champion Pedro Pichardo criticized the exclusion of field events like shot put from the inaugural championship.
- After the 200m final concludes Sunday evening, organizers will evaluate the format's success in delivering 'real meaning' and determine whether the biennial championship will continue as planned.
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Yle Urheilu follows the Ultimate Championship athletics competition and its first competition night in Budapest on this page.
At the Ultimate Championship, ten million dollars will be distributed to the athletes, all important to the new flagship format of the World Athletics Federation.
The World Federation of Athletics starts a new competition in Budapest. The format is innovative, the prize money immense. But there is already criticism. The only German Olympic winner will be missing.
This new competition, designed to boost the television audiences of a sport that claims lack of visibility outside the Olympic and World Games, has most great names, attracted by an unprecedented "prize money" in this sport. Each 'Ultimate Champion' will leave the Hungarian capital with a check of $150,000 (€129,000), which is more than twice what is achieved by a world title (US$70,000) and three times more than by a world record (US$50,000). T…
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