Trinidad and Tobago is all set to welcome home five sprinters who represented this country at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, last month and won silver medals.

And later on today Prime Minister Patrick Manning is expected to reveal just how they will be rewarded for their valiant efforts in the Olympics.

The five athletes, Richard Thompson, Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender and Aaron Armstrong, will arrive at the Piarco International Airport on BW 447 out of Barbados at 10 a.m., the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs Communication Department said in a statement.

Four of the five will receive $700,000 to $800,000 in cash and units from Unit Trust, sources said. Thompson is expected to receive $1 million also in units and cash.

The government has planned a grand welcome reception at the airport for the five and has also organised four days of activities in their honour.

Manning, according to the statement, will also be on hand to greet the athletes on the red-carpeted tarmac, and school children will be transported to the Airport to welcome home the "silver heroes".

Thompson, Bledman, Burns and Callender copped the silver medal in the men's 4x100 metres relay at the Olympic Games and were each awarded the Chaconia Gold Medal for their contributions to the sport.

Fellow relay team members Armstrong and Darrel Brown, who were unable to participate in the final race due to injury, were also awarded a Chaconia medal. Brown however will not be returning to T&T with his colleagues.

Thompson also captured the silver medal in the men's 100 metre final and it has been reported in the media that the government was planning to reward him with $1 million.