This player became a millionaire overnight!!!
Athletes who place highly in the olympic games are frequently shown showering with cash. Have you, however, heard of any athlete who has been awarded crores of rupees for not just missing out on a gold medal but also nearly winning one? The truth is that the Tokyo olympics took place in 2021, and Saudi Arabian karate expert Tareg Hamidi took home a silver medal. Every nation awards medal-winning athletes with cash, but this karate athlete received crores of rupees for another reason.
Saudi Arabia has actually sent athletes to the last fourteen olympics, but none of them have been able to bring home a gold medal. Tareg Hamidi instantly became a national hero in saudi arabia after he won the silver medal in the men's heavyweight karate competition at the tokyo Olympics. Maybe not even Hamidi would have guessed that he would become extremely wealthy from this silver medal.
10 crores were awarded as compensation.
Tareg Hamidi was informed at the time by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, Muhammad bin Salman, that while he had only earned a silver medal, the entire nation still saw him as a gold medallist. Following that, it was reported that Hamidi was rewarded 1.33 million dollars, or roughly 10 crore rupees at the time in indian currency. Without a doubt, saudi arabia lavishes its athletes with enormous compensation. In contrast, the most successful nation in Olympic history, the United States, awards gold medal winners with 37,500 dollars, or around 31 lakh rupees. Only four medals have saudi arabia ever won in the history of the Olympic Games. This nation was unable to secure a single medal at the 2024 Summer olympics in Paris.
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