This is the beautiful story of the day told by our colleagues from the newspaper the team . The French Sandra Forgues, formerly Wilfrid, recovered her gold medal olympique obtained in Atlanta in 1996 in a two-seater canoe with Frank Adisson. A property that she had lost on November 12, 2017, during a burglary at her brother-in-law’s house in Couffouleux (Tarn). And that she never thought she would ever see again.
“Surprised by the reflection of the sun on a golden object”
But it was without counting on the self-sacrifice of Mathieu Chandelle, employee of a company carrying out work on the highways. While he dismantled the safety barrier for ten kilometers
on the A68 motorway between Toulouse and Albi, it has was surprised by the reflection of the sun on a golden object. I call my colleagues and we see that it is an Olympic medal. It says Atlanta 1996 and has a canoe design on it. On the edge, there is marked double canoe
, he tells The team .
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He goes in search of the owner while surfing the Net and comes across Sandra Forgues’s Facebook profile. Neither one, nor two, the two individuals, whose history wanted them to meet, get in touch and make an appointment in mid-March to exchange the Olympic medal for the book ” One day perhaps, diary of an Olympic champion who became a woman »Written by Sandra Forgues. All’s well That ends well.
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