Glory is the same for everyone, but not the prizes. Winning a race, standing on the top step of the podium and listening to your national anthem while the crowd cheers you is priceless. For everything else there is Coni, because glory cannot be eaten.
While the Olympics go on without particular upheavals, someone stops and, in accordance with the crisis, spending reviews and so on, starts to count the various national committees in their pockets, to see how much is an olympic medal worth?.
And so it turns out that Italy, just like in Beijing four years ago, rewards its Olympians with 140 euros for gold, 75 for silver and 50 for bronze. To date, making a quick calculation, 680 euros would have already gone to our medalists.
A good amount, even if the tax authorities, as always, want their share. To be clear, Austria and Germany value a gold at 16 thousand euros e the United States 19 thousand. Even the Chinese locomotive, also in anticipation of a growth in the number of medals, is keeping costs down, from 100 euros for the home Olympics to the current 41.
Spain, as well as Italy, confirms the premiums of 4 years ago, 94 thousand euros, even if what has changed in the meantime is the taxation, which has almost doubled, while our cousins across the Alps pay 50 thousand euros for a piece of gold. In this picture, the comitted English Olympian who won't pay any prize money to his champions, currently fugitives, but only a heartfelt thank you and maybe a smile from the queen.
We can console ourselves, however, by looking at the premiums of certain Asian countries. Gold, in this special Olympics, goes to Armenia, with 700 thousand euros, followed by Azerbaijan (640 thousand) and Singapore (575 thousand euros). It should also be said that, taking a quick look at the medal table, these countries may not have to spend much at the end of the Games.
