British Olympic medal reassigned to France - 124 years on

A metallic badge credited to Great Britain astatine nan 1900 Olympics has been reassigned to France aft caller accusation came to ray astir nan cyclist who won it.

British national Lloyd Hildebrand vanished 2nd successful nan men's 25km cycling title successful Paris 124 years ago.

But nan International Olympic Committee (IOC) said caller investigation concluded Hildebrand "was calved and brought up successful France, and competed for a French nine earlier and aft Paris 1900".

The IOC's executive committee agreed to nan move connected Thursday.

It said: "Based connected this new-found information, nan executive committee decided to use nan aforesaid argumentation arsenic successful erstwhile cases."

Unlike today, National Olympic Committees (NOCs) were not progressive successful nan process of selecting athletes for nan 1900 Games.

Athletes alternatively paid an introduction interest and sent complete a licence number established by nan nationalist federation wherever they were regularly competing.

A Team GB spokesperson said: "We were alert of nan alteration of position for nan medal, and person ourselves benefited successful specified circumstances before.

"We shall effort to triumph 1 backmost later this summer!"