Lausan, Switzerland – After all his Olympic medals were destroyed in the fire of Los Angeles, the Great Gary Hall Junior set an unexpected record of replacement at the IOC headquarters on Monday.
On the same day an athlete was given ten Olympic medals.
“I will do better to take care of them,” Junior 1 to 1996 to the three summer games from the United States to take the United States five gold, three silver and two bronze new sets.
The originals were burnt four months ago in the city’s Pacific Palisads region, which will host next summer games in 2028.
Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, said that at the same time, they presented 10 to replace them “a unique event”.
“I don’t think that it had ever happened before and I hope it never happens again,” Bach Hall told the junior, “We hope to give you one more relief and joy at another moment to achieve what you were able to do with this tragedy.”
The Hall Junior Family, former teammate and Australia’s Stars Ian Thorpe and Michael Cleem, are emotionally supported by the old Olympic rivals.
“I am a very lucky man because of having friends and family,” he said. “The support I was given from the athletic community has encouraged me in the darkness of the night.”
He brought him a perverted gold medal in Switzerland and rescued from his dog, Pudles after catching his insulin drug.
Regarding the gold burned at the Olympic event, Hall Jr. said, “It got some character.” “The price of friends out of the price of friends is wee we live in capitalism, consumers and when you realize that when you lose everything, how much you really need.
“The character cannot be taken away, it cannot be burned and it is not lost.”
Thorp was one of the first persons contacted by Junior during the January fire.
“I don’t know how he knew,” said Junior Thorp about the surprise call from the Australian 4×100-meter freestyle team that moved to the 2000 Sydney Olympics to the United States.
“This is what this (Olympic) family is – rivals and friends. I appreciate all of them. I can’t thank the Olympic movement enough for their support through this very difficult time.”
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