After winning the gold medal at the Olympic Tokyo, American wrestlers Tamyra Mensah-Stock intend to buy a mother to sell food worth $ 30,000 with a bonus.
My mother will have a car to sell food!
Meanwhile, Singing Judo Russian Tamerlan Bashaev wants to use bonuses thanks to a bronze medal to marry and hobby on honeymoon.
Won the Olympic medal is often a peak achievement in the career of each athlete.
In the US, the bonus for gold, silver and copper medals is 37,500 USD, 22,500 USD and USD 15,000.
American Christmas Tamyra Mensah-Stock holds a national flag after winning the Gold Medal at Olympic Tokyo on August 3.
The biggest bonus is supposed to be a million Singapore dollars (about $ 740,000) for those who won the Olympic Gold Medal in personal contents.
The bonus helps athletes can pursue their sports dreams, less worried about material problems, Chuan-Jin Tan, the Chairman of the Council said, adding this money by talented enterprises
At the Olympic Rio de Janeiro in 2016, with a victory in the content of 100 meters of male butterfly swimming, Joseph Schooling, when age 21, became the first to win the Olympic gold medal in Singapore history.
After paying taxes and contributing a mandatory of 20% of the bonus, Schooling said he was about 650,000 Singapore dollars (nearly 480,000 USD) and decided to send them to a bank account with their parents, because
At the age of 13, Schooling left Singapore to study at a private school in Florida, USA.
Many other athletes at Olympic Tokyo also expressed their desire to use family bonuses.
Meanwhile, the election of Kazakhstan Igor Son hopes 75,000 USD he has been rewarded by the bronze medal will help cover the cost of the cost of cerebral brother.
In 2016, after winning the Bronze Medal for Ivory Coast Sports Union, Marriage Taekwondo Ruth Gbagbi said she would use $ 54,000 in bonuses to build a house and fix the parents' house.
However, when asked if the bonus was worthling, the 27-year-old female martial artist said she was a bit disappointed when compared to other countries, adding that Ivory coast sports only had two movements
Meanwhile, American baseball player Eddy Alvarez said that money was just a small reward.
Alvarez sent this amount to the bank to save, but then use the house and other needs when starting a career in small tournaments, where baseball players are usually paid from 1,000 - 15,000
For the Norwegian hand paddle Kjetil Borch, who won the silver medal of men's singles racing content, the reward he expected was a congratulatory letter from King and Norwegian Prime Minister.
Norway does not give bonuses to athletes to win the Olympic medal, instead of grants, with the highest level of 12,000 euros (USD 14,000) per year for equipment or practice activities.
When knowing Singapore rewards people who won the Olympic Gold Medal of $ 740,000, Borch jokes: how long does it take to apply for a Singapore Citosquision?.