Quantcast
Channel: Business Insider
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 61790

Russia Gives 15-Year-Old Figure Skating Prodigy A Mercedes And A Personal Driver After The Olympics

$
0
0

yulia lipnitskaya sitting car

Every Russian Olympic medalist has received a free Mercedes-Benz after the country's most successful Olympics ever.

That even includes Yulia Lipnitskaya, the 15-year-old figure skating prodigy who burst onto the scene in the team event. Yulia also got a personal driver because she's not old enough to have her license yet, the AP reports.

Russia had its biggest medal haul in history, topping the medal count 33 total medals and 13 golds.

At a ceremony in Moscow on Wednesday, the medalists got their new wheels — which came on top of cash prize money that Russian athletes get for winning medals. Gold medalists get $120,000 in cash, silver medalists get $76,000, and bronze medalists get $52,000, according to R-Sport.

Forty-five cars were given out in total, the Moscow Times reports

Prime minister Dimitry Medvedev was on hand:

yulia lipnitskaya car

Adelina Sotnikova, the gold medal winner in figure skating:

adelina sotnikova car

Join the conversation about this story »


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 61790

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>