Source: Global Times
【Global Times Comprehensive Report】 Russia's "Communist Youth League Pravda" reported on the 25th that the medal stolen by Russian tennis Olympic champion Vesnina was accidentally lost and recovered.
Russian tennis Olympic champion Vesnina
It is reported that on the 11th of this month, Vesnina was stolen from her home in Moscow, in addition to the jewelry in the safe, the women's doubles gold medal she won at the Rio Olympics and the Olympic silver medal she won at the Tokyo Olympics were also stolen. Vesnina said unidentified people entered her home to steal, when neither she nor her husband were at home. The Olympic medals were in Vesnina's gym bag, and because she had shown them to the children before, she didn't put them in the safe. The sirens installed in their homes did not function at the time of the incident.
To her surprise, on the 23rd, the thief left the medal at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Moscow where Visnina lived. According to the report, the thief may have found a conscience and decided to return the medals that are important to the athletes. A source from the Moscow suburban police said: "In addition to medals, the thief left a box of chocolates and a letter of apology. Police said that although the thief returned the medal, the offender would still be searched based on fingerprints he may have left behind. (Liu Yupeng)