France has scored a belated surprise Olympic victory against Great Britain – 124 years later than expected – after a 1900 Paris Olympics cycling silver medal was taken away from Team GB and awarded to its neighbor across the channel by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
France has scored a belated surprise Olympic victory against Great Britain – 124 years later than expected – after a 1900 Paris Olympics cycling silver medal was taken away from Team GB and awarded to its neighbor across the channel by the International Olympic Committee . The medal was reassigned to France after the IOC concluded that its recipient, British cyclist Lloyd Hildebrand, was competing as part of a French club at a time when medal attribution did not strictly depend on citizenship.
“National Olympic Committees were not involved in the process, as they are today,” the IOC added. Stéphane Gachet, a French sports author who researched Hildebrand’s background, had written to the IOC on March 30 this year to request the change, copying in French President Emmanuel Macron as well as France’s sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. “The rule that athletes must be registered for the Games by their country of nationality only appeared in 1920,” Gachet said.
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