2020-10-23
52 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray,
James Harkin and Anna Tyshinski and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go, starting with fact number one and that's Anna.
My fact this week is that in India,
you automatically get a government job if you qualify for the Olympics and if you win a medal, you get a promotion.
Wow!
Does the size of the promotion depend on the size of the medal,
not the size of the medal, the material from which the medal is made?
Yeah, you don't get sort of giant gold medals to you.
It does, yeah, essentially,
I think the level of promotion depends on how well you do generally and it's not just at the Olympics,
it's in various other sporting competitions.
So this is a system which seems to exist state to state,
they have various different policies from one state to the next and it seems to also exist at a federal level and the truth is
that to train to qualify for the Olympics is basically a full-time job and a lot of people can't afford to take time out of work,
like where do you find the money to support that,
the athlete's diet can be very expensive and so the way the Indian government and state governments encourage their citizens to get sporty is to give them government jobs which is like monthly salary,
you can't be fired, you get medical care, you get a pension,