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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
(External Link
). 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"
(External Link) but said it was a "courageous" move that he wouldn't have made;
Nicolas Sarkozy, president of the majority party
UMP, disapproved such uses of amnesty.
(External Link)
Chirac justified it by France's regaining a seat at IOC.
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