Irina Slutskaya, two-time world champion and Olympic silver medalist in 2002, shared her opinion on state payments to athletes for successful performance at the Games. The former figure skater told about this to the Match TV channel.
Slutskaya reacted positively to the fact that athletes receive 61 thousand dollars (at the rate on the day of writing the note, 4.5 million rubles – approx. “Lenta.ru”) for the Olympic gold. “Is this an adequate price? We must say thank you that there is such a sum, somewhere they pay a thousand dollars, ”the figure skater reflected.
Earlier, the head coach of the Russian national freestyle wrestling team, Dzambolat Tedeev, criticized payments to the Olympic champions in Tokyo. He drew attention to the fact that in Georgia, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, athletes who won the Games are paid much more.
Athletes who won gold at the 2020 Olympics were paid four million rubles, silver medalists – 2.5 million rubles, bronze – 1.7 million rubles. In addition, they received BMW vehicles of different series.
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