Team USA track and field athletes hail Olympic prize-money offer

Team USA's Tara Davis-Woodhall and Kenny Bednarek hail World Athletics' plan to award prize money at Olympics

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00:00 I'm happy to see it. It's a step forward for the sport and I mean honestly it's

00:05 like it's about time just because you have athletes that work their butt off

00:08 blood sweat and tear every single day every single year and you know some

00:12 compensation is needed for them. I mean there's some cases where you might have

00:18 somebody that's at that level but they they're not sponsored so that would help

00:22 them in the long run for you know the next couple of months or the next couple

00:25 of years so I'm just happy to see improvement on that point. I mean it's

00:31 more money in my bank account that's good I mean it's evolving that's we were

00:35 talking about this earlier and World Athletics it's not that's not their area

00:42 so I mean give money up like that in an area that they aren't even sponsoring

00:47 and they're just giving money to their athletes I think that's pretty cool. This

00:52 sport is expensive like there's a lot of money that you have to put out to be

00:59 great to be great to compete like why are we having to go all the way to

01:05 Europe spend all this money go all the way to Europe and barely get a dime when

01:11 we come back to the States. You can lose money in track and field as

01:20 soon as you step out the door like it's I mean hopefully it can change but we're

01:26 we're doing it now.