Singapore tops the world in Olympic medal cash payout

Yahoo! News Singapore, 6 Aug 2012
If there's a medal for the highest cash payout for winning an Olympic gold, Singapore would top the charts.
Under the Multi-Million Dollar Awards Programme (MAP), Olympic gold medal champions in individual events stand to win S$ 1 million, S$500,000 for silver and S$250,000.
For example, Feng Tianwei's bronze medal victory in the women's single of the table-tennis will earn her a quarter of a million dollars. Full story