A 6-year-old Georgia girl has found the main portion of a 1992 Olympic gold medal that was stolen from an American canoeist’s car earlier this month.
Wayne Smith tells news outlets that his daughter found the medal on the side of a road last week near their Atlanta home. Initially mistaking it for trash, Smith took a closer look at the disc and realized it belonged to Joe Jacobi.
Smith says he had heard about Jacobi’s two-man canoe slalom medal being stolen from inside the Olympian’s car in an Atlanta restaurant parking lot June 6.
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