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Undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has pledged to pay Ukraine Olympic boxers their prize money out of his own pocket if they can make it onto the podium.
Ukraine coach Dmitry Sosnovsky told Reuters after middleweight Khyzhniak’s win over Hungarian Pylyp Akilov on Tuesday.
Sosnovsky stated that the move will serve as an added incentive for the boxers.
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“He helps our boxers a lot, in different ways. He supports them financially. He helps them with money,”
“He told them that if they win medals at the Olympic Games, he will give the prize money by himself. From his pocket.
“He’ll give them money for bronze, for silver and for gold. He said for first place it will $80,000, for the second place, the silver medal, $70,000. And the bronze is $50,000.”
Ukraine has three boxers competing in Paris – Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Oleksandr Khyzhniak, Aider Abduraimov and Dmytro Lovchynskyi – and Usyk has been doing his best to provide them support at the Games.
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