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Medal Detectives Find Grigorieva’s Gold

By oddJoe ⋅ August 4, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Australian pole vault medalist Tatiana Grigorieva How about some good news to carry you into the weekend? Earlier this week, police were able to recover an Olympic silver medal that had been stolen from Australian pole vaulter Tatiana Grigorieva. The medal, which the Russian-born athlete won at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, was among a stash of personal mementos stored in a safe that was stolen a few weeks ago. Police also recovered a gold medal Grigorieva won in 2002 at the Manchester Commonwealth Games. Tatiana, in addition to being a world class pole vault champion, is also a successful model and could easily win a medal in an Olympic wet t-shirt contest if only wet t-shirt competitions were an Olympic sport. Maybe some day.