Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Cash prize enticement for Cambodian athletes bringing back medals

With cash prize, Cambodian athletes to win more medals at world events

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodian athletes have won 93 medals in all from various international sports events since 1993 and new achievements can be expected as the government is to award cash prize to winners in the future, local media said on Tuesday.

The government lately approved a sub-decree to respectively award golden, silver or bronze medal winners at Olympic Games with 20,000 U.S. dollars, 16,000 dollars, and 10,000 dollars, Bun Sok, secretary of state at the Ministry of Education, told English-Khmer language daily newspaper the Mekong Times.

Golden, silver or bronze medal winners at Asian games can respectively get 10,000 dollars, 6,000dollars, and 4,000 dollars, he said, adding that golden, silver or bronze medal winners at Southeast Asian games can respectively get 6,000 dollars, 4,000 dollars, or 2,000 dollars.

Meanwhile, deputy director of Cambodia's National Olympic Committee (NOC) Em Heang said that the athletes' ability will become greater with the rewards.

The rewards are appropriate as they can help improve players' performance and bring back more medals from world sports tournaments, he added.

According to the sub-decree, coaches with medal-winning athletes as well as disabled competitors with medals can also get cash prize.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

other people do it all the time eg. USA. given rewards (bonuses) to people encourages them to do their best, and it helps to bring the soft spot out of them as well. smart move, team!!