Agreed. What really pisses me off is a lot of men haved called out WTC on this rediculous “equality formula” Messick talks up. He even did it on Lance’s podcast....and steadfast they march on despite our voices. The facts are simple: WTC doesnt care about pros. They reduced prize purses, they turned their backs when they crash in Kona (Matt Russell hinted as much on a podcast though he treaded very carefully and my friend Tara Norton 10 years ago are 2 very specific examples) And of course this bullshit reasoning re: equality.
They need pros for any semblance of mass media opportunities. I mean pro sports is pro sports. It sells stuff. Period. But they only want pros at the minimum required cost with no long term investment. And that is a short term business model. For example, Ryf had best season you can have winning Europe, 70.3 and Kona and made $210000 prize money. Katie Zafares made $177,400 racing ITU and Super League. Riddle me this? As Super League grows where do you think ITU stars go after an olympic cycle? Not Kona....direct to SL for guaranteed income (racers get a salary) in beautiful destinations with hotels paid etc. vs chasing sposnors, injuries, high expense lines for little upside chasing KONA. (Source link below re incomes).
what worries me the most is WTC will do to running what its done to triathlon. WANDA already nosed into the Abbott Majors, rock n roll series purchase etc.....
I suppose the upside in all this is WTC is for sale so lets see who buys it and what their belief system is on equality, long term growth model etc. For now i only foresee more cuts.
https://triathlonworld.com/...8-prize-money-146725
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