One of those organizations is swimming in cash and the other one is exactly as flush as its benefactor allows it to be. The same dynamic that makes Gatlin/Coleman decide to look elsewhere means that it wouldn't be that expensive to put together a prize structure that actually gets folks to come out.

Instead, this was what I found. It's kind of a bummer.

1st place $8,000
2nd place $6,000
3rd place $4,000
4th place $3,000
5th place $2,000
6th place $1,000
7th place $1,000

I assume that basically anybody here with an endorsement contract gets a decent-sized bonus for winning as well. But I imagine Coleman and Gatlin et al. are getting substantially more than that just to show up at European races.

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