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.

 

[Beebo]

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.

This year’s world champion will win £1million at Ally Pally.
Darts isn’t a joke sport anymore.

 

[tyred]

This year’s world champion will win £1million at Ally Pally.
Darts isn’t a joke sport anymore.

You could buy a lot of sausages with that!

 

[Webbo2]

This year’s world champion will win £1million at Ally Pally.
Darts isn’t a joke sport anymore.

However it’s not a sport is it.

 

[Drago]

My first flat was, IIRC, £15,000 in 1987 for a spacious and modern place in a niceish part of MK.

My first house, a decent size 3 bed terrace wasn't much more in 1989.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

My first flat was, IIRC, £15,000 in 1987 for a spacious and modern place in a niceish part of MK.

My first house, a decent size 3 bed terrace wasn't much more in 1989.

1982, east London. I bought a ground floor maisonette for 14k. Last time I checked they were going for over 300K

 

[gbb]

Flip this line of thought and in many ways we're going backwards.
GDs birthday yesterday and among the bits we got her was a microscope. What kid doesn't like a microscope ?
It was brought online, I didn't see it till I opened it...what a load of garbage.

I had one as a kid in the early 70s, alloy construction, proper optics, a good light, it was just brilliant but at the time, pretty standard fare.

GDs one, a piece of plastic rubbish, poor light, poor optics...it all JUST does what it needs to

 

[Ming the Merciless]

However it’s not a sport is it.

You sure?


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