MEXICO CITY, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Mexican Olympic
champion Guillermo Perez will receive an award of 2.3 million Mexican pesos
(230,000 U.S dollars), based on the offer that Telemx Institute of Sports did to
the gold winners in Beijing.
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Guillermo Perez (blue) of Mexico
celebrates after defeating Yulis Gabriel Mercedes of Dominican Republic
during the women's 49kg gold medal match at the Beijing Olympic Games
taekwondo event in Beijing, China, Aug. 20, 2008. Guillermo Perez won the
match and got the gold medal. (Xinhua Photo) Photo
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Director
of this autonomous organism Arturo Elias Ayub announced this economic aid one
week before the Mexican Olympic delegation traveled to Beijing.
Elias said, in that time, that the winner of gold
will receive every month for the next four years 50,000 pesos (some 5,000
dollars), while the silver winner will receive 20,000 pesos (2,000 dollars) and
the bronze winners 10,000 pesos (1,000 dollars).
To this aid it is added the one offered by the
governor of the state of Michoacan Leonel Cota Godoy who said that his
government will give a house or a car to the medal winners from that state, also
the National Commission of Physical Culture and Sports (Conade) offered some
50,000 dollars to the winners.
With this economical aid Perez will be able to face
the biggest challenge of his live, to get married.
His fiancee Angelica Vaca, who also practices
taekwondo, hopes that Perez marry her after six years of engagement.
Vaca told local press that the wedding plans were
suspended to give priority to the preparation of the Olympic Games, but the
plans will be retaken once Perez comeback.