A New York City track meet Thursday night will be unlike any other, featuring lucrative prize money, big-name entertainers, silver crowns for the winners instead of gold medals and an all-female field.
Chalk up another win for women’s sports.
Recently crowned Olympic 200-meter champion Gabby Thomas and company are helping track take a big step forward by racing in the inaugural Athlos track meet, which has assembled some of the fastest women in the world.
For them to even take the starting line, an assist goes to Alex Morgan and the rest of her 2019 World Cup-winning U.S. soccer squad. Another assist to basketball standouts Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese as well.
Because Alexis Ohanian , the co-founder of Reddit and husband of Serena Williams, was told nobody tunes in for women’s sports.
He begged to differ. It led to the launch of Athlos, which will dole out more than $500,000 in total prize money and split 10% of all proceeds among the athletes. There’s also a performance by Grammy Award-winning singer Megan Thee Stallion.