New $10m athletics event gives hosts commercial ‘skin in the game’

(Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
(Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
The new World Athletics Ultimate Championship, a biennial event that currently sits outside the federation’s existing rights agreements, will give organisers “more skin in the game” in terms of inventory, according to the body’s president Sebastian Coe.

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