“Why do we have to go all the way to Europe, spend all this money, and barely get a dime when we come back to the [United] States?” asked Tara Davis-Woodhall, voicing the frustration many athletes share over the sport’s long-standing pay parity. Whether it’s the Diamond League or even the World Championships, the numbers speak for themselves: a gold medal nets just $30,000 in the league and $70,000 at the Worlds, pennies compared to what stars in other sports bring home. Countless track and field athletes have admitted that there’s no money in the sport.

The Olympic gold medalist recently reignited the pay gap debate on Instagram by resharing a post from WipeTheLine. The story highlighted the staggering disparity: World Athletics 100m champion Oblique Seville earned just $70,000, while U

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