BANGKOK: Thailand is offering its athletes big cash incentives for Olympic gold medals – but will pay out in instalments to stop them squandering it.
Gold medallists will earn 10mil Baht (US$314,000), silver medal winners will take 6mil Baht, while a bronze is worth 4mil baht – sizable sums in a country where the minimum wage is just 203 Baht (US$6) a day.
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