Turkey’s collecting of unhappy foreign athletics stars shows it knows money matters

An athlete celebrates a shot put throw.

Last week Turkey’s athletics federation undertook a seismic spending spree, rattling international track and field right down to its foundations. A Nigerian and four Jamaican athletes all agreed to become, for the purposes of international competition, Turkish, for a reported $ 500K US signing bonus.

CBC | Sports News

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