00:00What more can you give the men who brought glory to the country on so many occasions?
00:05And now the world championships.
00:07Well, hopefully what they deserve.
00:10For winning gold today, the javelin Kishon Wolcott walked away with US $70,000 as prize money from the competition.
00:18If Wolcott broke the world record of 98.48 meters set by Czech Republic's Jan Velensky,
00:24he would have been awarded a bonus of US $100,000.
00:27His take-home would have been $170,000.
00:32For Jareem's second place, he is expected to receive US $35,000.
00:37And what is expected for the two athletes from the Trinidad and Tobago government
00:42as reward for their efforts at the world championships?
00:46As per being ranked in the top 10 in the world,
00:48both athletes would have already been receiving a maximum sum allocation of $250,000.
00:53For meddling, Sport Minister Philip Watts really congratulated both athletes and had this to say.
01:00Yes, well, we're working on that right now.
01:03We discuss it at Cabinet and we're working on something by next week.
01:06Monday, you all should hear something on that.
01:08And for both men, right?
01:09Or people who work on that?
01:10Both men.
01:12We will be meeting with Kishon on Sunday.
01:14I think he's landing around 1.
01:17Unless that changes, he should be landing around 1 p.m.
01:20So we will be there to greet him.
01:22As for a national holiday?
01:24Not yet.
01:25We didn't discuss that.
01:28Yeah, yeah.
01:28We didn't discuss that as yet.
01:30Well, Walker was asked about that as well.
01:32After Olympics, when you came home to Trinidad, you had a national holiday.
01:37Will that happen now as well?
01:39I don't know.
01:40I saw my manager is calling me from Trinidad.
01:42So maybe, I don't know.
01:44We will see.
01:44I know the people are really grateful.
01:47What do you think?
01:48Should the government bring in the celebrations with a holiday?
01:52CJ Dupour, TV6.
01:53That's the first 88-meter throw of the competition.
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