PARIS, Aug 4 — While the International Olympic Committee does not give prize money to winners at Paris 2024, many nations and territories offer incentives to their athletes to...
PARIS, Aug 4 — While the International Olympic Committee does not give prize money to winners at Paris 2024, many nations and territories offer incentives to their athletes to come home with gold, silver or bronze.
A gold at the Asian Games does the same, which star footballer Son Heung-min famously achieved at Jakarta in 2018 to avoid his spell in combat fatigues. Another report said state-owned enterprise PT Pegadaian promised to give the pair three kilograms of gold. Abraham Tolentino, president of the Philippine Olympic Committee, told AFP he had previously given medallists houses and land at his own expense.According to officials, Iraq’s football players were each given more than nine million dinars and a plot of land for qualifying for the Olympics.
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