If it looked like Joseph Schooling had a little extra motivation when he beat Michael Phelps and the rest of the field for the gold medal in the men’s 100-meter butterfly Friday night in Rio, it’s because he did.
Joseph Schooling is about to become a millionaire. He gets $1 million SGD from the govt as reward for the gold medal.
— Stefanie Loh (@StefanieLoh) August 13, 2016
Those one million Singapore dollars translates to about $740,000 U.S, according to Google’s currency converter on Saturday morning.
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The interesting twist here is that Schooling is attending and swimming for the University of Texas.