Atlanta – Girl Strikes Gold By Finding Stolen Olympic Medal In Trash

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    Atlanta – An Olympic champion is thanking a 7-year-old Atlanta girl who found his gold medal in a pile of trash weeks after it got stolen.

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    Joe Jacobi won the medal in men’s canoe double slalom at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Jacobi says it was stolen when somebody broke into his car in June.

    Weeks later, Chloe Smith was walking with her father when she spotted the gold medal discarded in a pile of garbage. Chloe returned the medal to Jacobi, who had posted about the theft on social media. The former Olympian then promised to visit Chloe’s school and let her classmates know about her good deed.

    Jacobi spoke Monday to Chloe’s first-grade class at Woodson Park Academy. WSB-TV reports (http://2wsb.tv/2bEaJw3) the Olympian brought his recovered gold medal with him.


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    MarkTwain2
    MarkTwain2
    7 years ago

    Kiddush Hashem

    Normal
    Normal
    7 years ago

    Thanks is nice, a reward is much nicer.

    7 years ago

    It is more important to publicly thank people for doing a ‘good deed’ than it is important to tell us the bad news. Too bad the news media does not have more of this type of news and less of the bad stuff.

    But I guess it is the bad stuff that sells?