That was in addition to her appearance money, said to be $25,000.

As a gambler you want to be playing to get the appearance money.

They don't mind limping around the track for appearance money.

None of the race directors would say how much appearance money they would offer.

London is offering about $2.5 million in appearance money, $1.5 million of it to the top men.

"In a perfect world, there would be no appearance money," Meyer said.

At the start of summer, she was receiving appearance money of $1,500 to $2,000 for each European meet.

Besides appearance money, the winner will get a reported $500,000.

All the professional runners - 14 women and 13 men - received appearance money.

A spokeswoman for the competition said: 'We never pay appearance money and that is always made clear in the contracts.