A champion hammer thrower who retained his title at the World Athletics Championships at the weekend reportedly used his gold medal to pay for a taxi ride home after celebrating his win.
Polish hammer thrower Pawel Fajdek comfortably took gold in the final on Saturday with a best of 80.88m and, according to Chinese media outlet Tencent, decided to toast his victory by having a few drinks.
However, things took a turn for the worse after Fajdek is claimed to have woken up the next morning in Beijing without his gold medal before he subsequently contacted local police to help him retrieve it.
Officers successfully managed to find the taxi driver who had taken the 26-year-old home the previous night, but then heard how Fajdek had apparently given his gold medal away to pay for the journey.
But all ended well for the hammer thrower after he was reunited with his medal when the taxi driver agreed to give it back in return for payment of the original fare.
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