Afghanistan celebrated its first Olympic medal, and the President ordered the House of Representatives to award it.
Countries reward athletes in various forms, including eating, drinking, living and traveling.
Medal awards vary from country to country, with the total bounty of 42 countries exceeding 200 million.
350,000 national gold medalists. How many gold medals are there in each national Olympic Games?
(● Ranked in order of gold medal bonus ● Currency unit: RMB)
Singapore: 5 million yuan
Singapore is the most generous country, with a price of 5 million yuan for each gold medal. The only medal in Singapore's history came from 1960 Rome Olympic Games, and a weightlifter won the silver medal. In order to break the "gold medal shortage", the rewards provided by the state are also overwhelming, and they are more willing to spend the money than become unclaimed checks.
Greece: 65,438+900,000 yuan
Keeping pace with the times, Greece has given up the tradition of sending garlands to champions and replaced them with cash, and the amount is among the highest in all countries. The gold medal, silver medal and bronze medal winners of Beijing Olympic Games can get 6.5438+0.9 million yuan, 6.5438+0.3 million yuan and 700,000 yuan respectively. The winner can also get a good civil servant position and several advertising contracts.
Korea: 850,000
Korean men's gymnastics is their most promising event to hit the Olympic gold medal. Koreans have won four gold medals in this event from 199 1 in the World Championships, but they always miss the Olympic gold medal. The Korean Gymnastics Association accurately opened the winning prize of 850,000 yuan to the account of this project, and made it clear that Liang and Jin Daen in the parallel bars project were the most powerful impactors.
Montenegro * * * Republic: 600,000 yuan
This Balkan country with a population of only 700,000 only joined the Olympic Committee in 2007. When it participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, it offered a reward of 600,000 gold medals, and each citizen donated 1 yuan. Although there is little hope of winning the gold medal, it is considered to be the participation of the whole people.
Colombia: 560,000 yuan
Colombian President Uribe personally presented awards to Olympic medal winners. At the15th Pan-American Games held last year, Colombian athletes ranked sixth in the medal list and jumped into the ranks of Latin American sports powers. In order to further stimulate the enthusiasm of athletes, the Colombian government has increased the bonus range of gold medal winners in the Beijing Olympic Games by 15 times! It will be increased from the original 6.5438+million pesos (about RMB37,000) to 65.438+500 million pesos (about RMB560,000).
Bulgaria: 540,000 yuan
The Bulgarian Ministry of Youth and Sports awarded 540,000 yuan, 400,000 yuan and 270,000 yuan to the champion, runner-up and third runner-up respectively, which will be provided by the Bulgarian First Investment Bank, the general sponsor of the Bulgarian Olympic delegation. In addition, the United Bank of Bulgaria will provide Bulgarian rowers who win medals in the Beijing Olympic Games with a bonus of up to 270,000 yuan.
Russia: 350,000 yuan
Russia, a big gold medal country in the Olympic Games, spared no expense to find its past glory, offering 350,000 yuan, 2 1 10,000 yuan and10.4 million yuan to gold, silver and bronze medal athletes respectively. The local government where the athletes are located will also provide housing, bonuses and cars. Although the absolute prize amount is not very high, Russian athletes are all masters of winning medals, and the burden of the Russian government should be the heaviest.
Malaysia: 330,000 yuan
At present, Malaysia has set a bonus of 330,000 yuan for gold medal winners of the Beijing Olympic Games, plus retirement allowance.
Japan: 1.9 million yuan
The Japanese government's reward for Olympic athletes is not very generous. The gold medal winner is only 6.5438+0.9 million yuan, the silver medal winner and the bronze medal winner are 6.5438+0.25 million yuan and 63,000 yuan respectively. Compared with the national per capita annual income of 266,000 yuan, this Olympic bonus is really as light as a feather.
United States: 1.77 million yuan
The United States, a gold crocodile, is not generous in awarding bonuses. The official reward for gold medal winners is only 6.5438+0.77 million yuan. However, athletes don't have to care about this, because in this country with highly developed commercialization and star-making industry, they can "make up for their apologies" in the shopping mall.
Germany: 65,438+500,000 yuan
Strict Germans will only be stricter in numbers. In order to maintain a healthy financial situation, they dare not award prizes easily. Just like the first-class football league in this country, its club's financial situation is the best in Europe, and the game's enjoyment is the worst among the five major leagues in Europe. For Olympic gold medalists, they are only willing to give 6.5438+0.5 million yuan.
Canada: 65,438+400,000 yuan
If the 20 10 Winter Olympics is not held in Vancouver, Canadians are not used to awarding medals to Olympic medal winners. This time, they provided 6.5438+0.4 million yuan, 6.5438+0.4 million yuan and 70,000 yuan for the gold medal, silver medal and bronze medal respectively, which was a new incentive mechanism before the Olympic flame was greeted at home. Michael Chambers, President of the Canadian Olympic Committee, recently announced in Ottawa the establishment of the Outstanding Athletes Foundation to provide prizes for Olympic medal winners. For the first time since the Beijing Olympic Games, Canada has distributed bonuses to Olympic medal winners.
Australia: 65438+350,000
Australia ranked fourth in Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 and Athens Olympic Games in 2004, but according to the latest forecast, they may fall behind France, Germany and Britain. Therefore, the Australian Olympic Committee has agreed to increase the reward fund for athletes, and they hope not to be lower than the seventh place in the Olympic medal list. The new bonus distribution scheme is: gold medal135,000 yuan, silver medal 90,000 yuan and bronze medal 45,000 yuan, and the coach will get a quarter of the total.
Mongolia: 80,000 yuan
Mongolia has longed for an Olympic gold medal for a long time. The government awarded 80,000 yuan to the athletes who won the gold medal in the Beijing Olympic Games, and the runner-up and runner-up won 40,000 yuan and 20,000 yuan respectively.
Since 1984, the number of gold medals awarded by the state to Olympic gold medal winners and other medal winners has been rising. The number of gold medals awarded by the State Sports Commission for 1988 Seoul Olympic Games was 15000, Barcelona Olympic Games was 1992 and Atlanta Olympic Games was 1996. Four years later, the 2000 Sydney Olympic gold medal prize rose to 80,000. The 2004 Athens Olympic Games is the one with the highest prize money and the largest increase so far. The State Sports General Administration awarded 200,000 gold medals, 20 silver medals/kloc-0 and 80,000 bronze medals, all of which were exempt from personal income tax.
In order to encourage China athletes to wear gold and silver in the Olympic Games and win great honor for the motherland, at the same time, the reward of athletes who won gold medals or other medals has become the focus of people's most attention.
The competition for gold medals in the Olympic Games is becoming increasingly fierce, and the gold content of each event is obviously different. Take the Athens Olympic Games as an example, in order to encourage competition results and make breakthroughs in some events, huge awards were set up separately. For example, since the last session, the Tian Guan Center has established a system in which gold medal winners get millions of dollars, and this time the winners are Liu Xiang and Xing Huina. The water sports management center, which had not won a gold medal in the Olympic Games before, also set up a grand prize of 6,543.8+0,000 yuan, and Mongolia and Yang Wenjun achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medal for the country, each of which won a prize of 6,543.8+0,000 yuan.
"As soon as the gold medal rings, there will be two thousand pieces of gold." When China athletes win gold medals in the Olympic Games, their financial resources will also roll in. In addition to some awards given by the State Sports General Administration to athletes who have won medals, other awards can be divided into two parts: First, the local sports bureau or government to which each athlete who has won medals belongs will also give corresponding bonuses to reward Olympic heroes. The second is the bonus commitment of local enterprises and private enterprise owners to outstanding athletes. For the winning athletes, there are prizes in the prizes, and there are always surprises. Take Hubei Olympic champions as an example. Hubei Province gave Gao and Li Ting 500,000 yuan each, Provincial Sports Bureau gave them 80,000 yuan each, and Wuhan Women's Federation gave them 400,000 yuan each. In addition, after the Athens Olympic Games, Mr. Fok Yingdong gave the gold medal winner a gold jar worth 80,000 dollars.
Some athletes have been promised by local governments or entrepreneurs the day after winning the championship that they will receive housing and other forms of rewards. For example, some private entrepreneurs in Shandong want to send Li Du, the first gold medal athlete, a villa. Now she has accepted an invitation from a company in Zibo to become the image spokesperson of her sporting goods. Wang Yifu and Zhang Ning, two Liaoning veterans, each have a Zhonghua car, and others have real estate, including Guo Jingjing, Yang Jinghui and Tang. It is not difficult to see that after the last Olympic Games, the average bonus of some gold medal athletes has already exceeded one million.
Facing the 2008 Olympic Games one year later, the State General Administration of Sport will definitely continue to implement the reward policy in order to encourage athletes to achieve more achievements, although the country has not yet introduced a comprehensive reward method. Cui Dalin, assistant director of the State Sports General Administration, made it clear that the prize money of the 2008 Olympic Games will not be lower than that of the Athens Olympic Games. In addition, the state has also introduced a new policy of tax exemption for Olympic bonuses to ensure an increase in bonuses. In order to encourage a breakthrough in the 2008 Olympic Games, the Tennis Management Center has formulated a policy of increasing athletes' bonuses by 15%. In addition, after the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the social atmosphere of rewarding Olympic champions will reach its peak after the 2008 Olympic Games. Only counting all kinds of bonuses and in-kind rewards, it is estimated that each Olympic gold medalist in the 2008 Olympic Games will receive no less than RMB 654.38+RMB 5,000.