Thieves Return Medals to Olympic Gymnast

(ATR) Brazilian Olympic gymnastics medalist Arthur Nory announces on social networks that thieves have returned his medals stolen last week.

"Thanks a lot! Everything is tremendous and you cannot imagine the emotion! I have recovered all the medals," Nory wrote on Instagram before thanking the police, the media, TV, friends and "everyone who mobilized. '

The Brazilian Olympic Committee also echoed the message on the Internet.

The robbery occurred on Friday and at that time Nory estimated that 15 medals had been stolen from his house in Sao Paulo. However four days later he confirmed that there were 33 medals taken.

The medals were found in a box inside a garbage can in the Jardim Adalgisa neighborhood, in Osasco, a neighboring city of Sao Paulo, after an anonymous call from the alleged criminals in which they reported the place where they had been left.

With the medals, a letter was also found in which, according to the police, the alleged criminals wrote that if they had known it was Nory they would not have stolen them and that they hoped that the athlete would continue to win more medals.

Nory, 27, went on Tuesday night to a police station where they returned the medals and posed for photographs according to theOlimpiada Todo Diawebsite.

The 2019 World Cup gold medal won on the high bar and the 2016 Olympics bronze on the floor were the only medals not stolen because Nory kept them elsewhere.

The criminals had absconded with the gold and two silver medals from the Pan American Games of Lima 2019, the silver from the Pan American Games of Toronto 2015, and all the medals from the Gymnastics World Cup (Bulgaria, Glasgow, Doha).

Nory had announced that the security camera captured two armed men inside his residence who, after subduing a 64-year-old woman in charge of domestic services, stole part of his medals along with some belongings of little value.

"My intent of this warning is to ask for help. If you recognize these medals (they will be sold somewhere), let me know and return them. They are enormously valuable to me! But they have no economic value; they are "bathed". Just to let you know!" alerted the gymnast on his social networks.

Earlier this week the Pan-American sports organization Panam Sports had announced that it would replace the Lima 2019 medals that Nory had lost.

Written by Miguel Hernandez

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