Josh Kerr ready for US$150,000 Ingebrigtsen battle, but Scot not planning to chase paydays

From the football bosses seemingly hellbent on creating a year-long product, to a tennis calendar that Carlos Alcaraz this week called impossible, sporting administrators have been accused of roundly abandoning the concept of less is more.

There was also the case a couple of years ago of Chinese table tennis pair Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng withdrawing from the world rankings in protest at the fines being imposed on overworked players for skipping events.

Given the steady uprising of athletes...