For long jumper Sawyers, Ultimate payday gives her a chance to train ... and a new sewing machine

The athlete who perhaps best summed up the meaning of track’s new experiment, the Ultimate Championship, isn’t an ultimate champion herself. British long jumper Jazmin Sawyers took second in her event, so she did not get a medal or a trophy or the first prize of $150,000. She did get $75,000, though, which in track and field, can make a huge difference. She says it means she'll have the funds to train full time in an attempt to make her third Olympics, two years from now.

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