I think generally the "pro athlete" title is limited to the high networth sports anyway. However, I do think next year (especially with most sponsors decreasing their budgets) a lot of individual sport athlete will have to be creative in creating other streams of revenue. You can imagine that in Track and Field top athletes will attend competitions that they normally wouldn't have in years past simply for the financial gain. This I think will create a domino effect which will allow meet directors to attract high profile athletes for much less while limiting opportunity for the lower tier athletes who never had a shot at the big Diamond Leagues and such.

@Aniekeme Umoh have you had any experiences or friends in that space that can help @marquel