Five cows, land, a free apartment and coffee throughout life are some of the awards that the Badminton's female Indonesian couple will receive that won gold at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The Indonesian archipelago, where this racket sport is almost a religion, vibrated Monday with the victory of the female duo formed by Apriyani Rahayu and Greysia Polii in the final of the tournament against the Chinese couple (21-19, 21-15).
The Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, congratulated the athletes for social networks after a "hard and exciting game" and whose victory, said the president, is a gift advanced by Independence Day, which is celebrated on August 17.
The Government will reward with 5,000 million Indonesian rupees (almost 350,000 dollars or about 295,000 euros) to the winners, who will also receive an apartment in the capital, a gift from a real estate promoter, in addition to telephones or undefined subscriptions to magazines.
A cafeteria in Yakarta also announced that it will offer free coffee champions throughout life.
For his part, Konawe's chief of the district, on the island of Célebes, where Apriyani is natural to the news portal Tempo that the local administration gave him five cows and a land to build a home to the Olympic champion.
Indonesia won his first two gold medals in Bádminton - in the category of individual and women's individual - in the 1992 Olympics held in Barcelona, and since then this sport has not stopped adding successes and medals for the country.
