Man charged with theft of Oarsome Foursome Olympic medals

“Then I realized I had been at a school event about 10 days before… and I just thought, ‘oh no,’ and my heart sank,” he said.

“These are things that simply cannot be replaced.

“About twenty-eight years of our lives have been lost through the symbolism of those medals. But for me it’s the ability to pass those things on to your family.”

Detective Timothy Reiher said the medals were priceless to the winners.

“These are incredibly rare items with great sentimental value,” the detective said.

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“We ask people to look out for these medals in pawn shops and on online sales platforms.”

Ginn, who has ruled out offering a reward for the return of the medals, said he hoped someone would return the medals but said he felt “a sense of fear” and had accepted the fact that the medals “may never come back.”

“It’s about people respecting the time and energy of others and everything they put into something,” he said.

“The outcome I would like is for them to simply be returned.

It’s a good message for people to just do something decent.”

Ginn won a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics as a member of the Oarsome Foursome, along with Mike McKay, James Tomkins and Nick Green.

He also won gold at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Games in the cockless pair event, before winning silver in the fours event in London in 2012.

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