This is ridiculous. With prizes like that, they're probably too ashamed to make big cheques to hand out at the medals ceremony, but if more people knew how low the prize money is, I guess they'd have much more bad press about it and justifications to make. Now I'm sorry I don't have a solution, but the UCI probably have the means to give more if each men and women 1st place winner of the DH US open were awarded 15000$us and it was not even televised/streamed online! Thanks for bringing this over to the forums!