4 hours ago Seven disciplines volition beryllium contested successful some London and New York - the 100m hurdles, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, mile, and agelong leap - with an athlete's combined points determining the wide lawsuit winner.
Athletes tin gain up to $65,000 (£48,500) successful each idiosyncratic event, portion wide champions volition person an further $25,000 (£18,600), meaning an jock winning successful some cities could pouch $155,000 (£115,000).
Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson was among the winners astatine the 2025 conscionable arsenic immoderate of the world's fastest women competed amid a enactment ambiance wrong a packed Icahn Stadium, with unrecorded euphony and Tiffany & Co crowns presented by Serena Williams replacing accepted winners' medals.
After adding its London lawsuit successful 2026, Ohanian's eventual purpose is to make a worldwide, season-long league.
That is an ambition implicit which helium has agelong been successful speech with the sports' governing assemblage and "great partners" World Athletics.
"I'm astatine a precise fortunate spot successful my vocation successful my beingness wherever I don't privation to bash thing small. I privation to bash things that person large impacts, that are astir legacy," said Ohanian, who bought a 10% involvement successful Women's Super League shot squad Chelsea past year.
"We cognize we're entering into thing truly ambitious. Ultimately we privation to physique a league astir athletics, which historically has not had commercialized success. This is simply a large infinitesimal for us."
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