MOK does not intend to distribute medals

The President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge rejected requests from the sports authorities of Germany and Korea, who demanded to present duplicates of gold medals to their athletes affected by the judicial mistakes, Sport-Express reports.

Recall that the German team was deprived of two gold medals in equestrian sport at once due to error with a count of time, and the Korean gymnast remained in the all-around the second after the American because of the unfair judicial assessments.

The Olympic committees of Germany and Korea turned to the IOC with a request to give their athletes the second sets of gold medals to restore justice. However, Rogge decided not to repeat the precedent of the games in Salt Lake City he himself, when the Canadian pair of skaters Jamie Sale-David Pelletier was awarded gold medals, although they took second place after Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze.

“We said“ no ”by the Knock of Germany and Nok Korea and continue to say no“ no ”to everyone who appeals to such requests,” Rogge said. “We will not distribute medals from humanitarian or emotional considerations.”