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James DeGale's Olympic Gold Medal, MBE Stolen From Parents' Home

Former super middleweight world champion boxer James DeGale has revealed that his Olympic gold medal and MBE were stolen from his parents' home on Sunday night.

According to DeGale, the crime took place during England's Euro 2020 defeat to Italy.

The British boxer won the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

There was some video footage, which showed the alleged burglar entering the home of DeGale's parents.

"My parent's house got burgled last night whilst our boys were trying to bring it home! He took two of my prize possessions- my Olympic gold medal and my MBE. They are worthless to anyone other than me and they are two achievements that I prize from my boxing career," DeGale stated.

"I am gutted and need my medals back. Can anyone help by reporting any information you have? Please share far and wide."

The 35-year-old boxer retired in February 2019 after losing a twelve round unanimous decision to Chris Eubank Jr at the O2 Arena.

During his pro run, he capture the IBF super middleweight title on two occasions. He won the title for the first time in 2015, with a twelve round decision over Andre Dirrell. He lost the belt to Caleb Truax in a huge upset in 2017, but reclaimed the strap in their rematch the following year.

I’m not his biggest fan at all.. but this is just wrong on all levels.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑12 Jul 2021, 16:20 I’m not his biggest fan at all.. but this is just wrong on all levels.

Yeah - it’s disgusting. Degale must be rightly going absolutely mad.

Hope it's returned to him one way or another.

Who’s going buy that knowing it’s
Stolen, won’t it be “hot”

How much gold is in a gold medal?

Coco wrote: ↑13 Jul 2021, 07:50 How much gold is in a gold medal?

Not much - from memory the bulk of a gold medal is actually sterling silver with a bit of copper too. It’s then gold plated so the value of the medal will be just as much in the silver as the gold plating.

I would be have thought it’s less than £1,000 (and probably less than £500) for the individual elements.

maverick23 wrote: ↑13 Jul 2021, 07:56

Coco wrote: ↑13 Jul 2021, 07:50 How much gold is in a gold medal?

Not much - from memory the bulk of a gold medal is actually sterling silver with a bit of copper too. It’s then gold plated so the value of the medal will be just as much in the silver as the gold plating.

I would be have thought it’s less than £1,000 (and probably less than £500) for the individual elements.

I bet in the olden days gold medals were made of gold.

The old Lonsdale belts had plenty of gold in them too, now it's just copper and brass.

Absolute scumbags. Awful news. I hope he's able to get them back somehow.

Coco wrote: ↑13 Jul 2021, 11:56

maverick23 wrote: ↑13 Jul 2021, 07:56

Coco wrote: ↑13 Jul 2021, 07:50 How much gold is in a gold medal?

Not much - from memory the bulk of a gold medal is actually sterling silver with a bit of copper too. It’s then gold plated so the value of the medal will be just as much in the silver as the gold plating.

I would be have thought it’s less than £1,000 (and probably less than £500) for the individual elements.

I bet in the olden days gold medals were made of gold.

The old Lonsdale belts had plenty of gold in them too, now it's just copper and brass.

Yeah - they were. 100 or so years ago though.