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The amount of money one can earn as a professional sports player has also multiplied so the incentive to practice has multiplied also. If I spent my youth play
by dazc 3y ago
The amount of money one can earn as a professional sports player has also multiplied so the incentive to practice has multiplied also.
If I spent my youth playing darts 8 hours a day I would be considered rather foolish, nowadays not so much.
- tokai 3y agoIn professional cycling the earnings have fallen quite a lot since the 90s, but professionalism in training and the overall level has risen. So money can't be the only explanation.
- Luc 3y agoI'm struggling to think of a way in which either individual or team earnings could possibly be lower now than in the 90's.
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- mdw_ 3y agoWhat is the data that you are basing this statement on?
- tokai 3y agoOn that average speeds records are being broken in racing all the time. That ex pros comment that the professionalism and training is on a much higher level now than it was in the 90s. And a whole lot of other things picked up following cycling for a long time.
- mdw_ 3y agoSorry. I should have asked a different question. Your statement mentioned that earnings have fallen since the 90s. I don't know of any data sources outside of the price money of the Tour de France. I was wondering if there were different source on which you relied to make that statement?
- tokai 3y agoI commented and answer on that before but deleted it, as I didn't felt like having a discussion about it. Cycling economy is frustratingly oblique. I relied on a host of source most of them not in writing, beside my own calculations on salaries. The academic monography The Economics of Professional Road Cycling claims that cycling has expanded economically since the 90s, while I think that their method is not trustworthy.
- sBqQu3U0wH 3y ago>So money can't be the only explanation. Well, of course not. There is better equipment, better training practices, and I imagine there are more participants doing cycling both on amateur and professional level. No wonder the results are better.