{"id":161652,"date":"2021-07-16T08:48:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=161652"},"modified":"2021-07-16T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:15:50","slug":"rd12-million-cash-prize-to-dominican-athletes-who-win-gold-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/07\/16\/rd12-million-cash-prize-to-dominican-athletes-who-win-gold-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"RD$12 million cash prize to Dominican athletes who win gold in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Premio-Olimpico-12-mm-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161676\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Premio-Olimpico-12-mm-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Premio-Olimpico-12-mm-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sports Minister Francisco Camacho says the government has RD$12 million for those who win gold, RD$8 million for those who win silver and RD$6 million for those who win bronze in the Tokyo Olympics. Team sports will get the award and an additional 10% for each team member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican government had awarded RD$10 million to Felix Sanchez when he won his second gold medal in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Camacho announced the coaches of the winning athletes will get awards of RD$3 million for gold, RD$2 million for silver and RD$1 million for bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic will be competing with 66 athletes in 10 sports in the Tokyo Olympics. These are the team sports women\u2019s volleyball and baseball, and boxing, track &amp; field, equestrian, taekwondo, rowing, swimming, weightlifting and judo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic has won Olympic medals:<br>Pedro Julio Nolasco, boxing (bronze, Los Angeles 1984)<br>Felix Sanchez, 400 hurdles (gold, Athens 2004) and (gold, London 2012)<br>Gabriel Mercedes, taekwondo, (silver, Beijing 2008)<br>Felix Dia, boxing (gold, Beijing 2008)<br>Luguelin Santos, 400 m (silver, London 2012)<br>Felix Pie, taekwondo, (bronze, Rio de Janeiro 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/deportes\/olimpismo\/premio-por-oro-olimpico-sera-de-rd-12-millones-HE27546670\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/deportistas-rd-derrochan-optimismo-respecto-al-exito-juegos-olimpicos\/\">El Dia <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 July 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Minister Francisco Camacho says the government has RD$12 million for those who win gold, RD$8 million for those who win silver and RD$6 million for those who win bronze in the Tokyo Olympics. Team sports will get the award and an additional 10% for each team member. The Dominican government had awarded RD$10 million &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/07\/16\/rd12-million-cash-prize-to-dominican-athletes-who-win-gold-in-tokyo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161678,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161652\/revisions\/161678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}