PyeongChang Olympic medals.
The sum of the prize money awarded by the state to Olympic medal winners has not changed since the last Olympic Games. The state will pay sportsmen $150 thousand for a gold medal, $75 thousand for a silver medal and $50 thousand for a bronze medal, Belarus Olympic mission chief Alyaksandr Baraulya announced at the press conference 100 days before the kick of the 2018 Olympic Games.
"Paralympians’ rewards will be smaller – 50, 30 and 20 thousand dollars, correspondingly,” the official added.
Belarusians have 45 candidates in 6 Olympic sports: biathlon, freestyle, speed skating, short track, alpine skiing and cross country ski race. “We have 10 licenses in biathlon: 5 for men and 5 for women,” TUT.by quotes Baraulya as saying. “If the qualification results were announced today, 11 more athletes be in this pull. We expect to get 7 licenses in freestyle, 2 – in alpine skiing, 6 – in cross country ski race, 2-4 in speed skating and 1-2 in short track.”
It means that there will be about 30 athletes in the Belarusian delegation. They are planning to set off for South Korea on January 27 to spend a few days getting ready for the Olympic Games there. The 2018 Winter Olympics will start in PyeongChang on February 9.