Former Olympic silver medalist Lashinda Demus finally received her gold medal at a reallocation ceremony in Paris during the 2024 Olympics.
On a bright, sunny day in Paris during the 2024 Olympic Games, Lashinda Demus received her Olympic gold medal . Americans received many gold medal s in track and field during those games, but Demus hadn’t just run her 400-meter hurdles race. Her triumphant moment happened 12 years earlier at the 2012 London Olympics — but that day, she received the silver medal.
At this year’s Olympics, there was a reallocation ceremony at which Demus and nine other athletes received their rightful medals after athletes who finished ahead of them were disqualified for doping. Demus’s journey to her rightful spot in Olympic history has been chronicled in “Lashinda Demus: The Fastest Mom in the World,” a documentary available on the Olympics YouTube channel. She admits she cried while watching a screener. “Sometimes, I hold in a lot of emotions because I have kids and you have life,” said Demus. “That was a release of all of those pent-up emotions that I’ve been holding in … I’m happy that I’m in this place that I can just enjoy i
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