Fanny Smith finally has her Olympic medal

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Ski crosser Fanny Smith (30) had to be very patient: in February 2022 she made it to the podium in Beijing – but her bronze medal was taken away from her. The reason: the woman from Vaud would have hindered Daniela Maier, who was riding behind her. Smith appeals and later wins. Now it is the German who feels betrayed. In the end, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne decides: both ski crossers can keep their bronze medals. Fanny Smith may finally receive this medal on Tuesday. She’s not the only one experiencing a wild story with her Olympic medal. Blick mentions four other weird medal stories:

Waiting 14 months for a medal? Bob legend Beat Hefti (45) can probably only smile. He and his brakeman Alexander Baumann only got their gold medals five and a half years after the Sochi Olympics. The background: At the 2014 Winter Games, the Appenzeller duo came second behind the Russians Subkow/Wojevoda. Years later it appears that the two are involved in the gigantic Russian doping scandal. They were stripped of the gold medal and quite unexpectedly the silver riders, Hefti and Baumann, became golden heroes.

Most female athletes guard an Olympic gold medal… just like real gold treasures. Mountain biker Jolanda Neff (30) was all the more shocked when her Tokyo 2020 gold medal began to fall apart. And that just a few days after delivery. “Even if you wipe the medal with a little pressure, the top layer will come off and fall off,” said the three-time overall World Cup winner at the time. Other athletes suddenly showed up with broken medals. The consolation: according to the Tokyo OK, it was just a protective layer that came off. Everything is fine with the gold underneath.

German slalom specialist Frank Wörndl (63) won silver at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. The joy of the precious metal is short-lived. After the race, Wörndl and his Italian colleague Alberto Tomba, 56, got stuck in a table dance bar in Calgary and drank $3,000 champagne. Too bad neither Wörndl nor Tomba carry that much money. So the newly crowned Olympic silver winner deposits his silver medal in the bar, and it’s probably still there, because Frank Wörndl never picked it up again.

What one guards like the apple of an eye, the other simply throws away. In 2015, Melbourne police made a remarkable discovery. In a heap of rubbish they discover a bronze medal from the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. The police are puzzled. It wasn’t until months later that the son of the Spanish boxer Agustin Argote reported. With him, the medal has found its rightful owner. But why it ended up in the trash remains a mystery.

Source : Blick