The Tour de France is the biggest and most lucrative bike race in the world. So every year teams compete for the top honour of the yellow jersey but there are plenty of other prizes as well for the teams.
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Congratulations to Jumbo for winning the team classification, hard to think what they did wrong, primoz should have come, but whatever
what a joke. they should multiply the prizes by 10 at least in the next edition. specially those stage wins and places
So that how the money is shared amongst the winning team? Hmm, imagine the losing teams!
Team DSM 12,800 for three weeks work, to be split between the whole team? Highway robbery.
Dang. These boys are not getting paid what they should be. What a sin.
I wonder how much the race director gets paid?
With those prize money, I am surprised anyone would ever want to be a professional cyclist.
this is peanuts given the suffering/training/time/sacrifice that is required… isn't Cycling super popular in Europe??? Might as well start a go-fund-me at this rate. WTH – France needs to pony up do a better job financing their premier sports event… hoooollleeee not worth!!!
In 2023, some of those numbers are seriously embarrassing. For a race that bills itself as it does, the prize money and appearance money should be a lot higher.
Largely it's pin money.
They aren’t their salaries but the prize money from the race itself
mbappe earns more in a week
Congratulations on beating 160 of the world's top professional cyclists by conning 20th in a 3 week race over three and a half thousand kilometres – Here's €1,000 pie tax… you should probably split it with your team
Congrats on Jonas welcoming viewers to the Cycling Dane YT channel. Quite a coup! How about a video with the final tally on team fines?
Shohei Otani makes more money playing 4 games…4 games of baseball than the winner of the Tour!!!!!!!!!!!!!😳
How much does the family who owns the TDF make?
Need a bit of Saudi money to make it worthwhile for the guys. Love the Tour de France, Superb viewing!!
So, roughly $3K-7K per rider teams, then $11k-17K per rider teams, plus the $52K per rider and $83K per rider teams. Other than the top two teams, that's not much payoff for three weeks of work, especially with all the training and equipment and care and logistics invested.
Since it's a team that produces placements and protection, do most or all earners share generously with their teammates? Do some let the team owners take most of it since they're already paid well under contract, which might already include contingency bonuses?
Jones the terminator🙂
The TDF organization literally made $1B. €2.5 seems low
That means the women's teams are splitting €50k in prize money
Agree that prize money is disappointingly low. Of course, their salaries are much more… thank God. Prize money, with all the countries broadcasting should be revised 10 times up…
Winning the TDF he made $ 31,632.38 per day in 21 days. What a f…insult of prize money when we think about a f…fat ass golfer makes 1o times more for only walking few hours a day for ONLY a WEEK! WTF????????
ANNOYNG BACKGRUND NOISE
Where's the real money being paid to TDF riders? I'm guessing it's in the salarys being paid to riders. Also most professional athletes make the majority of their income from endorsements from advertising, which I assume is not the case for professional cyclists. They are underpaid compared to most high level professional athletes.
What a joke this prize money is for the biggest sporting event in the world
Djokovic losing the wimbledon tennis final won more money than all these teams together
How can they even afford to race?! This is nothing compared to other pro and even amateur sports
Points and mountain classification is undervalued.
Considering top boxers earn millions per fight. The winner should get at least 10 million. Second 2 million, third 1 million. Every stage winner should get 1 million.
Daylight Robbery !For a gruelling and entertaining tour esp compared to obscene amount of money footballers get paid these days ,it’s meagre, I feel for these guys.Thanks for keeping the spirit of the sport alive , we fans acknowledge it.
some of them cant even buy a decent bike with that prize money.
Even 10 times that amount isn't enough. They can't charge the fans like those other sports with huge payrolls.
those amounts are a joke. start with another 0 and go from there…
Congret. Jonas Vingegaard.
You guys should dig into how the ASO owns the LLC that distributes prize money and charges the riders and teams for both holding that money there and distributing it to all the parties who receive prize money.
The riders salaries from the teams aren’t terrible. But for as much as the tour is televised you think they would rework the funding/sponsorship to take advantage of its popularity. In the US, if you wanted to watch it live we had to pay for peacock streaming this year. I’d be interested in seeing how much they made off of the streaming packages this year
Dang! So low! Man, i wish these pro riders all earn millions annualy the way they risk their lives. They deserve to earn more over most nba players. VanVleet 40mil, Dillon Brooks 20mil, jeez these guys earn millions as chuckers.
Not a lot of money.
This is before tax.
Thanks
I agree, these prizes are shockingly low for world class athletes who complete a brutal endeavor. I can only imagine how paultry to TDF Femme prize money must be, sigh.
The amount Jumbo Visma won is the amount that one footballer earns in a week off season.
The best riders in the world riding hard for 3 weeks and they maybe get a 1000 euros at the end? While bike manufacturers are charging $20k a bike. What a joke! And they risk their lives. I never thought I found something that pays less than chess lol
Is this a joke? 2023 Pro's are paid like its 1970. 100's of Millions$$ flow thru cycling each year and these guys are paid less than Fast food assistant managers. Terrible. 1st place rider thru 10th should all be over 1 million .
Its Crazy.the mostly seen sports event in the world.its not even What a football player earn a mounth