The Champions Park, installed by the COJO Paris 2024 at the Trocadéro to celebrate the Olympic medalists, will be the setting for a medal redistribution ceremony. The American Lashinda Demus, the Czech Zuzana Hejnova and the Jamaican Kaliese Spencer will receive their awards for the 400m hurdles from the London 2012 Games. The three athletes moved up one place in the rankings after the disqualification for doping of the Russian Natalya Antyukh, who finished the race in the lead with a time of 52.70, seven hundredths ahead of the American (photo above). But her suspension, confirmed last year, led the IOC and World Athletics to review the rankings and reallocate the medals. The three athletes will travel to the French capital for a ceremony which will be the first in history to take place as part of the Olympic Games. It will be held on Friday August 9, two days before the end of the Paris 2024 Games, more than 4.300 days after the final of the London 2012 Games. Lashinda Demus, now 40 years old, has already announced that she would go to Paris with her family, accompanied by her husband and four children. The 400m hurdles medals will not be the only event with medals to be reallocated by the IOC at the Paris 2024 Games. The body announced that the ceremony on August 9 at the Parc des Champions would also concern seven other medalists: Beverly McDonald (Jamaica – bronze on 200m at the Sydney 2000 Games), Chelsea Hammond-Ross (Jamaica – bronze in the long jump at the Beijing 2008 Games), Tarek Yehia Fouad Abdelazim (Egypt – bronze in weightlifting – 85 kg – at the London 2012 Games), Erik Kynard (United States – high jump gold at the London 2012 Games), Derek Drouin (Canada – high jump silver at the London 2012 Games), Sang-Guen Jeon (South Korea – weightlifting bronze – 105 kg – at the London 2012 Games), Abeba Aregawi (Ethiopia – bronze in the 1500m at the London 2012 Games).
