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.

 

[Beebo]

Wimbledon didn’t pay prize money until 1968. Men got £2000 women got £750.
Today they both get £3mill.

 

[Beebo]

Winner gets enough to run a supercar these days.

Lance Armstrong is still the richest cyclist. Worth $50mill apparently.

 

[tyred]

A friend of my Dad's was a pretty good amateur darts player back in the day.

The first big pub competition he won back in the '70s was sponsored by the local butchers.

The prize was 2lb. of sausages, and his mother was delighted as that was next day's dinner sorted.