Unexpected. Meeting for three days in Lausanne, the IOC Executive Board took a big step backwards. It debated a case dating back to the second Olympic Games of the modern era, contested in Paris in 1900. The body announced that it had agreed to rectify its records to reallocate a silver medal from the road cycling event. Won by Lloyd Hildebrand, it was for a long time assigned to Great Britain, the rider being a British citizen. But the IOC explains that recent research has concluded that Lloyd Hildebrand was born and raised in France, and that he had competed for a French club before and after the 1900 Paris Games. IOC decided to apply the current rule in this type of case, namely to put the medal to the assets of the national Olympic committee of the territory in which the club which had registered the athlete was based. The medal won by Lloyd Hildebrand will now be credited to France and no longer to Great Britain in the official records and in the IOC database. Until now, France and Great Britain each mentioned the silver medal on their websites.
