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Satoshi Shimizu, 27, who won the boxing bronze medal in the men's bantamweight division at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London has reported the loss of his medal to police.
According to police, the medal's disappearance was noticed four days after a trip Shimizu took to Tokyo's Shibuya Ward last week, when he attended an event at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, NTV reported Tuesday. After returning home, Shimizu, a second lieutenant in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, realized the medal was missing and reported the loss as a theft to Harajuku police.
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Eigen
Good luck finding it! It's something important that YOU earned.
Badge213
It was noticed missing four days after the trip, but there's no indication (at least in the report here) that it was actually stolen or just misplaced somewhere.
Yubaru
Badge according to last nights news (TV) story he filed a report with the police as it being stolen and the police are investigating it as a theft.
BurakuminDes
Unconfirmed reports just in that the thief has returned the medal. Apparently he realized it was a bronze won by an unknown athlete, therefore worthless!
Knox Harrington
Bura,
Hahaha, good one :-)
GJN48
"I was robbed"
DudeDeuce
Medals are pretty scarce for Japanese athletes and even medal winners from minor Olympic sports become famous here. It will be hard to sell within Japan unless it is sold as scrap metal to China and North Korea by ship.