Saudi Arabia's Tareg Hamedi poses with his silver medal in the men's kumite +75kg in the karate competition at a ceremony during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Aug 7, 2021. CAIRO: Tareg Hamedi went from being a hard-working student athlete to a national hero and millionaire after landing Saudi Arabia's second-ever Olympic silver medal in the karate competition in Tokyo three years ago.
In Tokyo, Hamedi missed out on claiming his country's first gold medal in controversial circumstances when he knocked out his opponent with an illegal high kick in the final and was disqualified. Olympic medallists can expect streets, schools and bridges to be named after them and it is not just oil-rich Gulf nations that offer lavish gifts and monetary rewards.
The entire Iraqi national football team that qualified for Paris Olympics recently received plots of land and financial bonuses from the prime minister.
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