World Cup chance to 'blow lid off' business of women's sports: Rapinoe

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LOS ANGELES: US veteran Megan Rapinoe said the upcoming Women's World Cup feels like a 'paradigm shift' in the global business of women's sports even as inequities persist. The fight for equal pay by Rapinoe and he

feels like a"paradigm shift" in the global business of women's sports even as inequities persist.

FIFA has guaranteed that every player at next month's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand will earn at least US$30,000, with the winners taking home US$270,000. "I think, just in general, women's sports right now feels like we're sort of out of just the dogged fight phase," Rapinoe, who played on World Cup-winning teams in 2015 and 2019, said as the team gathered in California to begin final preparations for the tournament.

"I think everyone is sort of hip to the game now and understands that this is not somewhere that's just like, 'Oh, we should cheer for the Women's World Cup because that's the right thing to do.'

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