Eladio Carrión offers $50,000 bonus for Puerto Rican gold medalists at Paris 2024 Olympics

The artist’s announcement comes after the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee announced that the agency would give $50,000 to each athlete in the Puerto Rican delegation who obtains a gold medal.

Athletes from Puerto Rico who participate in the Paris 2024 Olympics now have an additional incentive to win a gold medal.

The urban music artist Eladio Carrión announced that he would give $50,000 to each Puerto Rican athlete who obtains a gold medal in Paris 2024.

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The artist’s announcement comes after the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee (COPUR by its Spanish initials) president, Sara Rosario, announced that the agency would give $50,000 to each athlete in the Puerto Rican delegation who obtains a gold medal.

“If the @comiteolimpicopur puts them up, I will match them,” wrote Carrión, in an Instagram story.

In fact, before becoming a reguetón singer, Carrión was a professional swimmer, representing the island in several international competitions.

This is the second time that the artist expressed support for the island’s athletes, since days before he urged his colleagues to raise as much money as possible to support them in their participation in the Olympic games.

“It would be nice if a couple of artists got together to make a good pot to help the athletes who are going to represent us in Paris,” Carrión published in another story on his Instagram account.

COPUR will give $30,000 to each of the 51 athletes who obtain a silver medal and $20,000 for each that wins a bronze medal.

These amounts also served as an incentive in Tokyo 2020, but only the sprinter and standard bearer in Paris 2024, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, received the $50,000 for winning the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles race.

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Rosario recently highlighted Carrión’s support and said that he is a person “very aware” of the sacrifice that athletes experience to reach a high competitive level.

”Eladio experienced first-hand what it means to be a high-performance athlete. All the money that comes to COPUR, both from the Government and from private companies, is used appropriately,” said the president.