@dawn16 In almost any other sport there are millions of people watching at any given time, or even having an interest in it. Crossfit is not a big sport, the games is small time when you really think about it.
80000 people were watching the Women's final live, there are stadiums that hold more people than that, who will have all paid money to watch it. The Broadcast deal with CBS/Facebook is nowhere near the value of that other sports have for their leagues.
Just because someone works hard does not mean that they should automatically receive millions of dollars. There is not preferential treatment here, there is popular sports and unpopular sports. You cannot just have a blanket pay across all sports with the differential being your definition of effort.
80000 people were watching the Women's final live, there are stadiums that hold more people than that, who will have all paid money to watch it. The Broadcast deal with CBS/Facebook is nowhere near the value of that other sports have for their leagues.
Just because someone works hard does not mean that they should automatically receive millions of dollars. There is not preferential treatment here, there is popular sports and unpopular sports. You cannot just have a blanket pay across all sports with the differential being your definition of effort.