This is why our sport is a joke.
No national level soccer player or cyclist with potential to set AR in the marathon will ever look at running when they can make ten times as much elsewhere.
Claw back those millions from Max-Kickback Siegel and the prizes should have been like this
250,000 250,000
125,000 125,000
75,000 75,000
50,000 50,000
etc. out of a million purse
imagine the national press coverage with that kind of purse for the national trials held only every four years
In reality today with inflation doubling all prices, the 1st place should be made a millionaire but that would require Nike, NBC and Siegel to give up their 3rd vacation homes so never happening.