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Guy Drut (born December 6, 1950) is an Olympic champion
and politician who won gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in the 110m
hurdles.
Born in Oignies, Pas-de-Calais, France, Drut captured the silver
medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, finishing behind the
American Rodney
Milburn. In the European Championship of 1974 Drut came a
comfortable first. It was at the next Olympics that Guy was to
realise his dream, winning the 110m hurdles in a time of 13:30
ahead of Cuba's Alejandro Casañas and the American Willie
Davenport.
After retirement Guy became active in business and politics, with one of his
roles being Minister of
Youth Affairs and Sports in the conservative government of Alain Juppé from
1995 to 1997.
He has been convicted by French courts (a 15 month suspended
prison sentence) at the end of 2005 for accepting fictitious
employment as political patronage; as a consequence suspended by
the IOC [1]. In 2006,
president Jacques
Chirac amnestied Drut,
using a rarely used clause in a 2002 amnesty law authorizing the
president to grant amnesty for certain categories of crimes to
people who had made great contributions to France in certain
fields. The move caused great controversy, including within the
majority members of Parliament: president of the National Assembly Jean-Louis
Debré commented that it gave an unpleasant impression of
"self-washing machine" [2] but said it was
a "courageous" move that he would not have made; Nicolas
Sarkozy, president of the majority party UMP,
disapproved such uses of amnesty. [3] Chirac
justified it by France's regaining a seat at IOC.
Drut is serving on the IOC's Evaluation Commission for the 2016
Summer Olympics. [1]
References
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