Good countries as measured by paralympics medals

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This just keeps getting murkier.

 

From Yahoo Sport:

 

The Australian Olympic Committee has revealed a cash payment for medal winners at the Tokyo Games won't be given to athletes who are retiring.

 

It emerged during the Tokyo Olympics that Australia's medallists would be rewarded for their efforts with $20,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze.

 

However the AOC confirmed this week that the payment won't go to athletes who stop competing.

 

The AOC told the ABC the 'Medical Incentive Funding' is "an annual athlete incentive scheme, not a reward program".

 

MIF aims to incentivise athletes to continue training, with the goal of representing Australia at the next Olympic Games, summer and winter.

 

Athletes must maintain appropriate training regimes with the intention of gaining national selection in the following year in order to receive the payment.

 

That means any athlete who won a medal in Tokyo but is planning to retire won't receive their money.

 

However some individual sporting organisations have their own bonus payments in place, while a number of high-profile Australians have pledged to pay our medal-winning athletes.

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While it seems reprehensible they have targeted their money in a way it will be most effective.ie Keep medal winners winning medals. Nev