WHAT WILL WALCOTT AND JEREEM BE AWARDED

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would you believe some are calling for a holiday? Are you among the lot? Whatever will follow in the coming days to celebrate their accomplishments... both Jereem and Keshorn will be given their fair share of remuneration for their gold and silver medal performances at the World Championships. Here's what they are walking away with.

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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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