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Carl Lewis - one of the most successful track and field Olympic athletes of all time - tells Newshour's Tim Franks why he supports the decision to pay gold medalists at the Paris Olympics prize money. For the first time in the history of the Games winners will receive $50,000 from World Athletics.

(Photo: Carl Lewis of the USA celebrates his victory in the Men's 100m race of the Track and Field competition of the 1984 Olympic Games held on 4 August 1984 in the Los Angeles Coliseum in California. Credit: David Madison/Getty Images)