MAKING OF CHAMPS: The money that makes it all work

It takes cash to care or money makes the mare run. Whichever catchy maxim you choose, one thing is beyond doubt – it takes millions of dollars to execute an event of the scale of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs). From the rental of the main Stadium, where competition takes place, the Stadium East facility, where team camps are set up and warm-ups take place, to security, to lighting and fixtures, to multimedia equipment, from the proverbial pin to an anchor, your bank account must be hefty.