[INFO SPORTUNE] One good news leads to another. Fourteen years after the Vancouver Olympic Games, Martin Fourcade will inherit a new gold medal. The sixth of his biathlon career, received in the mass-start event. The now retired French athlete finished the race in second place, behind the Russian Evgeny Ustyugov.
But the latter has just been downgraded and stripped of all his results obtained over the period 2010 to 2014 (at the end of his athletic career), by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), due to irregularities on his biological passport. Martin Fourcade will therefore recover the gold of a sixth Olympic coronation, but what about the government bonus provided for this purpose?
Martin Fourcade transforms silver into gold. Sounding and tripping
We asked the question to the Ministry of Sports, Youth and Community Life of Gil Avérous, who confirms to us that the bonus will be well adjusted to performance and the circumstance. That is to say that the 20,000 euros received at the time, for the equivalence of money, will become the 50,000 of the Olympic victory.
“By official decision of the IOC, the payment of the differential (gold/silver) will be made as quickly as possible. The presentation of the medal will in fact be organized under the authority of the IOC on a retroactive basis on the occasion of a future international competition.we are told. A double surprise therefore, in Martin Fourcade's day.
