South African athletes will receive a bonus of R400,000 for winning gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, with silver and bronze medals earning R200,000 and R75,000 respectively, TimesLive reports. The South African team for Paris 2024 comprises 140 athletes, the second-largest team after Tokyo 2020, where they had 179 participants. These athletes will compete in 19 different sports, continuing the trend from Rio 2016 and Beijing 2008, which had 138 and 136 athletes, respectively.
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