This depends on the country and what its polcies are and als those companies who sponsor the Athletes.
The 2004 Olympic gold medal team was from Cuba. The 2008 Olympic gold medal game will be between Cuba and South Korea.
There are hundreds of Olympic gold medal winners alive as of 2013.
Kanu
No, the IOC does not pay medal winners.
Japan
they receive a medal
As of the 2008 Games in Beijing, no athlete from Madagascar has ever won an Olympic medal.
South Korea's first Olympic gold medal was won by Yang Jeong-Mo in men's freestyle wrestling, featherweight class, at the 1976 Games in Montreal.
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Yes
They get a sack of masa