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Here’s tip number one for those of you Olympic wannabes: if you want to win an Olympic gold medal, change your name to something like Supercalifragilistic Expialidocious. Will it work? The trick worked for Thai weightlifter Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon so it might work for you too.

Legend has it [actually it's a true story] that Prawadee, then named Chanpim Kantatian wasn’t sure whether she can make it to the Thai Olympic team so she consulted a fortune teller who advised her to change her name. So Chanpim Kantatian became Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon. And then she went on to win an Olympic gold medal, the first for Thailand in the Beijing Games. Congratulations to our Thai friends. Kaw sadeng kwam yin dee duay!!

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Thai taekwondo jins Buttree Puedpong, Chutchawal Khaola-or, and Chonnapas Premwaew (left) are good enough to win Olympic gold medals according to Pimol Srivikorn, president of the Taekwondo Association of Thailand (TAT).

If any of the three will win a gold medal, s/he will receive a bonus amounting to $314,000 as we noted here. Of the countries we’ve tracked so far, Thailand is awarding the richest financial incentive to its Olympic medalists.

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According to our list, Thailand — so far — is giving the highest financial incentive to its Olympic medalists. Here’s how it looks:

Gold medalists will earn $314,000, silver medal winners will take home $187,788 while a bronze is worth $125,213.

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The Olympic flame is scheduled to arrive in Bangkok tomorrow; a torch relay around the capital is scheduled on Saturday.

Above photo shows Olympic medalist Pavina Tongsuk, right, and Assistant Permanent Secretary of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Anan Siripasraporn. Photo credit: AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong