While it's somewhat absurd that there is only one Grammy given to a song in the dance field when the genre at large is driven by the thousands upon thousands of single releases in a given year, this award is still a cherished prize for victors and nominees alike. .
The king, who runs the games, has offered his daughter as a prize to the victor.
The victors' prize, originally a crown of dry wild celery, was changed to a pine wreath in Roman times, the pine being sacred to Poseidon.
Top prize for the victors was the chance to exploit Uzbekistan's natural riches: the cotton it grows and the gold and gas down below.
Knights charge a wooden carving of a Saracen aiming to score points for their district, with the much-coveted Golden Lance as a prize for the victors.
The two banks will consolidate their retail banking in Switzerland and form a merged entity, Warburg Dillon Read, to take on the Americans in investment banking.In theory, a glittering prize awaits the victors of this contest.
These ships were Guy-Victor Duperré's squadron of Bellone, Minerve, corvette Victor and prizes Windham and Ceylon returning from the Comoros Islands.
An audience of women was also essential, as they had to confer favours on the knights, and the lady of the tournament had to present the bejeweled prize to the overall victor.
The onus is clearly on the teams, competing in the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, to put on a show as they try to claim a victor's prize reckoned to be worth $150 million.
First performed in Venice in February 1734, L'Olimpiade tells of two rivals for the princess Aristea, whose hand in marriage is the victor's prize, though we never get to see the race.
