A supercomputer is predicting success for Team GB at this summer's Olympic Games in Paris - but can they deliver?
Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics , with World Athletics saying on Wednesday it would pay $50,000 to gold medallists in Paris. The governing body of athletics said it was setting aside $2.4m to pay the gold medallists across the 48 events on the track and field program for this year's Paris Olympics .Relay teams will split the $50,000 between their members.
'The prize money will come out of the share of Olympic revenue that the IOC distributes to World Athletics and other governing bodies of individual sports.Athletes will have to pass 'the usual anti-doping procedures' at the event before they receive the money, World Athletics added.The modern Olympics originated as an amateur sports event and the International Olympic Committee does not award prize money.
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