What IOC President Kirsty Coventry says about paying Olympic athletes

Should athletes at the Olympics get paid?

International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry's recent response to that question generated enough backlash that she's now posted what amounts to a clarification on social media.

Coventry, an Olympic champion swimmer for her home country of Zimbabwe, said in the post to the IOC's Instagram account for its athlete portal that she was only talking about prize money when she told New Zealand's Sport Nation recently, "I don't believe in paying athletes."...