{"id":273,"date":"2009-04-08T22:17:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T06:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2009\/04\/08\/2009-olympia-prize-money-increased-to-800000\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T22:17:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T06:17:36","slug":"2009-olympia-prize-money-increased-to-800000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2009\/04\/2009-olympia-prize-money-increased-to-800000\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Olympia prize money increased to $800,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympia weekend&#8217;s prize money just got bigger, to an incredible $800,000, an increase of $45,000 from last year&#8217;s prize money. And what does the winner of the 2009 Mr. Olympia get? $200,000 &#8211; currently of which their is no clear front runner, although Dexter Jackson has the title and will be defending it against a myriad of top bodybuilders, including Victor Martinez, Jay Cutler, Phil Heath, and Kai Greene.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our friends at flexonline.com, who gave us the heads up of the total prize purse.\u00a0 It times of a recession, and some of the toughest days, it is great to see AMI supporting and putting more money into the best bodybuilding contest!<\/p>\n<p>To purchase regular or VIP tickets for the Olympia, please go to this link<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mrolympia.com\/2009\/tickets.html\"><font color=\"#476c8e\">http:\/\/www.mrolympia.com\/2009\/tickets.html<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympia weekend&#8217;s prize money just got bigger, to an incredible $800,000, an increase of $45,000 from last year&#8217;s prize money. And what does the winner of the 2009 Mr. Olympia get? $200,000 &#8211; currently of which their is no clear front runner, although Dexter Jackson has the title and will be defending it against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest-info","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}