How things change over the years.

[Dave7]

Tour de France has just started.
Commentator was quoting the guy that won the yellow Jersey in 1949 !!!
He said that earned him enough to have running water installed in his house.

 

[Mo1959]

Tour de France has just started.
Commentator was quoting the guy that won the yellow Jersey in 1949 !!!
He said that earned him enough to have running water installed in his house.

They’re still not very big earners compared to footballers, top tennis players, etc

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Winner gets enough to run a supercar these days.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

When Alex Higgins won the World Snooker Championship in 1972 his prize money was £480. This years champion picked up half a million.