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2021: As a reward for their achievements, the gold medal winners receive Philharmonic coins worth €17,000. Silver medalists received €13,000, bronze medalists received €11,000 each. 2024: As a reward for their achievements, the gold medal winners receive Philharmonic coins worth €20,000. Bronze medalists received €14,000 each. [5] [6]
CBS paid $50,000 for the right to broadcast the games in the United States, and this marked the first time the Olympic Games were televised there. [8] Also, officials, unsure if a skier had missed a gate in the men's slalom, asked CBS if they could review a videotape of the race.
At the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, US athletes received a total of $5.6 million in payments for medal performances through “Operation Gold.” For instance, the US Olympic & Paralympic ...
American athletes who win gold receive $38,000; silver $23,000; and bronze $15,000. Some countries, including Great Britain and Norway, don't pay medalists any cash. (See a full breakdown at CNBC .
Olympic bronze medals are made of 95% copper and 5% zinc, according to Newsweek, but both silver and gold medals are made from pure silver. The difference is that the first-place medal is plated ...
In 2011, NBC agreed to a $4.38 billion contract with the International Olympic Committee to broadcast the Olympics through the 2020 games, the most expensive television rights deal in Olympic history. [160] NBC then agreed to a $7.75 billion contract extension on May 7, 2014, to air the Olympics through the 2032 games. [3]
Along with all the well-deserved glory, winning an Olympic gold medal often comes with a hefty cash payout. This year, American gold medal winners will receive a $37,500 bonus courtesy of the U.S ...
(The Americans' gold medal–clinching game against Finland was aired live, despite a start time of 11am EST on a Sunday morning. All US hockey games in the Winter Olympics since 1988 have been shown live, and since 1992, in full.) The relay race in 1984 in which Carl Lewis won his fourth gold medal.