Olympiad | After all, an athletics medal for the Czech Republic, only twelve years old. Hejnová got to see her – Sport.cz

Paris (from our correspondent) – The medals were not sold at the Stade de France, but in the center of the city at Trocadéro Square in Champions Park. Athletes from the current games come to celebrate their medals there with their fans, but the area where the opening ceremony was held is also used to distribute precious metals from the -Previous Olympics. Summer and winter.

Athletes and weightlifters enjoyed the extra ceremonies on Friday and it was an unusual sight at times. In some disciplines, only one athlete stood on the podium in front of hundreds of spectators, for example the Jamaican Beverly McDonald is already 54 years old and received a medal from the Sydney Games nearly a quarter of a century ago, when she moved to the bronze position…

The celebration of the picnickers from London had a more dignified form. The three winners gathered at the Trocadero, the American Lashinda Demusová who won a new gold, the Zuzana Hejnová who won silver and the Jamaican Kaliese Spencerová who won bronze.

Natalja Anťuchová, who won Olympic gold at the age of 31, was better than everyone on the track in London. She also won silver with the relay, she received the Russian state award.

In 2016, however, she found out that she would lose the relay medal after the positive doping test of her partner Antonina Krivošapková. And in the next four years, her fraud was also revealed. A long legal and administrative journey followed until, after twelve years, the coins finally reached their rightful owners.

“That’s not a big surprise, we suspected. And it’s good to have a better position, even if I came out the best. There is no difference between third and second place, like when you have gold instead of silver or bronze instead of fourth place,” said Hejnová after the decision was confirmed.

Demusová listened to the American anthem while looking at the Eiffel Tower, 37-year-old Hejnová, together with her friend Marko and trainer Dana Jandová, will bring a silver medal from her several-day trip to Paris, which can her display at home along with her two gold medals from the World Championships.