Hildebrand was unavailable for comment.
[REGNUM] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revised the protocol for the 25-kilometer cycling race held as part of the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. This was reported on Thursday, June 13, by the organization’s press service.Why, that was only 124 years ago!
The IOC awarded France the British medal at the 1900 Olympic Games.
We are talking about a cycling race in which Louis Hildebrand won the silver medal. Then the medal was awarded to Great Britain.
“Recent research has shown that although Hildebrand was a British citizen, he was born and raised in France and played for a French club before and after the Paris Olympics,” Reuters quoted the statement as saying.
It is noted that now the medal won by Hildebrand has now been awarded to France, whose team became the winner of the 1900 Olympics. After the revision, the French had 27 gold, 39 silver and 37 bronze medals. The British team at the Olympic Games in Paris took third place in the overall standings.
Which team did he play for?
As reported by Regnum, the 2024 Olympic Games will be held in Paris from July 26 to August 11. Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be able to take part in the parade of athletes at the opening ceremony and in the Games themselves as official representatives of their countries, and the medals they won as so-called “neutral athletes” will not be taken into account in any standings. As Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized, the Olympic Games without Russian athletes will be flawed and uninteresting.
That's okay. I'm sure that 124 years from now it'll all be rectified.