Recognise and reward paralympians fairly

The Online Citizen, 18 Sep 2008, Dharmendra Yadav

"As a paralympian, Yip will receive $100,000 under the AAA, about one-tenth of what she could have received as an olympian. Had she been an athlete with no disability, she would have been awarded $1,000,000.

Contrast this figure also with the $750,000 that our China-born athletes, who are now Singaporeans and won the silver medal at the Olympic Games, will receive.

The rationale for the divergence in the amounts does not appear clear."

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