The International Olympic Committee says it doesn’t issue prize money for the games. Instead, each nation can decide whether it wants to compensate its athletes.
While she should have been stretching and preparing to race, the 28-year-old was banging on a porta-potty's door, screaming for someone to let her out.Less than an hour before her semifinal at U.S. track trials, 400-meter runner Kendall Ellis was trapped in a porta-potty, banging on the door, screaming for someone to let her out.
Now, the 28-year-old who was considered mainly a relay specialist will go to the Olympics to compete for a title all her own. Halfway through the last lap of that 2018 relay, she was in third place, barely in the screen. A few seconds later, the TV announcer all but handed the race to the Purdue runner in the lead: “There’s no way, unless they drop the baton, Purdue’s going to win this, which we certainly didn’t see.”
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