Track and Field Legend Gail Devers Speaks Her Piece on Investing in Women's Sports and more!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- It was an honor to have spoken with Olympian and track & field legend Gail Devers at Athlos. The 100m/100mh champion failed to give her Mount Rushmore of track and field legends (she tried her best 🤣). However, she still gave flowers to the athletes that came before, the current generation and shared her thoughts on the evolution of women in and out of the sport.
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Hail Gail !
She was one of my favourite in track & Field
VERY WELL ARTICULATED GAIL.. BLESSINGS 🙏🏾💯🇹🇹
Love that woman. Great track athlete.❤
Gail Devers was my favourite athlete, I thought she would go into coaching.
I will separate the men and women---sprinters only. (1. SAFP, 2. Fast-Elaine, 3. Allyson, 4. VCB) (1. Bolt, 2. Lewis, 3. Jesse, 4. Michael Johnson)
still fine
Is this my auntie?? 😂
Devers is off base here. The pay disparities she alludes to do not exist in track and field. The ones that do exist come down to dollars and cents. Not many people pay attention to the WNBA because it is an inferior product. The same goes for women’s boxing. Other salary differences are often attributable to career and lifestyle choices, not a conspiracy to short change women.
@@pierspim4341 There are pay disparities between men and women in track and field. Whether that comes from certain athletes who are talented going without contracts, or your favorite athlete being lowballed for a brand deal. Or how World Athletics earns all this money off the athletes name, image and likeness yet they only get a fraction of that money is “earnings”. It’s about time track and field can be a career for all and not just the 1% who found the “right” agent and went pro at the “right” time.
Jesse Owens, Usain, Carl, Michael (men) FloJo, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Allyson, one of those Jamaican ladies (men) also Edwin Moses can be on the Mount Rushmore of track and field (sprinting edition)
Jesse Owens was my Cousin and my grandfather (my mom’s dad) his name was Jessie Owens as well….they were first cousins 😊