ebay and the tour

[bthornt]

http://www.ebay.com/cln/ebaycollectionseditor/The-Great-Race/311750868015

keep scrolling down, and it will keep expanding

[cadence90]

Wow, some amazing stuff there.

This is beautiful:
http://i1360.photobucket.com/albums/r654/traghetter/tdf1910_zpshrnpjfwa.jpg (http://s1360.photobucket.com/user/traghetter/media/tdf1910_zpshrnpjfwa.jpg.html)

[Macadamia]

Their little introduction alleging that there was a lot of money to be won by winning the tour got me to look it up, 500,000 euros split by winner's team and staff.

[cadence90]

Their little introduction alleging that there was a lot of money to be won by winning the tour got me to look it up, 500,000 euros split by winner's team and staff.

Interesting.
I did not realize that the current prize money is so low, compared to some other sports.

The prize money has also not increased by as much as I would have thought (only ~10x).
1903: 12,000 Ancient French Francs =
2016: 30,760,712 FRF =
2016: 46,895 EURO =
2016: 52,217 USD.

I guess it's better to be Andy Murray than Chris Froome, since in 2016 the Wimbledon winner is awarded €2,253,217.*
And if you finish 20th or lower? :eek:

Top spot on the podium in Paris is worth €500,000 – a €50,000 increase on 2015. While that’s not an amount to be sniffed at, it is actually comparatively low compared to other sports. Tennis’ Wimbledon Championships, for example, hand out a whopping £1,888,000 to the two (gentleman and ladies) singles winners.

Second place in the Tour is worth €200,000, while third place gets €100,000. Finishing from fourth to 19th pays out between €70,000 and €1,100, while every other finisher nets €1,000 as reward for slogging it out over the entirety of the three-week race.

* EDIT:
Or stupid golf. I don't follow golf, but I just saw that someone won something called the Barracuda Championship, which is certainly no Master's, etc.
Purse: $3,200,000 • Winning Share: $576,000 :eek:

[Joxster]

The main prize money goes to the team, the winner makes his money from endorsements and start money. The pay check the riders get now is huge compared to when I was riding, I was on £5,500 basic, Laurent Fignon was on £40,000 basic back in 1987. The sponsor gave you a bonus for podium places and the prize money went in to a pot that was split between then the medical team, mechanics, coaching staff and domestiques.