Judo gold medalist Elnur Mammadli of Azerbaijan should be our ultimate Olympic idol. Why? Because he did everything we have been monitoring in this blog, you know, the grand old traditions of Olympic medal biting, Olympic flag waving, and Olympic arms raising. He is our three-in-one gold medalist. Go Elnur!
By the way, for those of [...]
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Elnur Mammadli Does It All For Us
Money Stuff: Incentives for Azerbaijani Olympic Medalists
If you won an Olympic gold medal in Beijing, how much prize/incentive money will you receive from your country’s sports authorities? If you are from Azerbaijan you will receive more than AZN 100,000 and NOC–AZN 50,000.
We have to admit that we don’t know the difference between AZN and NOC-AZN and why the athletes’ incentives are [...]
