Guy Drut
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Guy Drut 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 http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/olympic_news/full_story_uk.asp?id=1580. 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" http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3224,36-779331,0.html?xtor=RSS-3224 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. http://archquo.nouvelobs.com/cgi/articles?ad=politique/20060530.OBS9552.html&host=http://permanent.nouvelobs.com
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
.
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
champion and politician who won gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...
in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
in the 110m hurdles.
Born in Oignies
Oignies
Oignies is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:Oignies is a former coalmining town, nowadays a light industrial town, northeast of Lens, at the junction of the D46 and the D160 roads...
, Pas-de-Calais, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Drut captured the silver medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics
1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972....
in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, finishing behind the American Rodney Milburn
Rodney Milburn
Rodney "Rod" Milburn, Jr. was an American athlete who won gold at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in the 110m hurdles.- Career :...
. 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
Alejandro Casañas
Alejandro Francisco Casañas Ramírez is a former Cuban hurdler....
and the American Willie Davenport
Willie Davenport
William "Willie" D. Davenport , nicknamed "Breeze" Davenport, was an American athlete, born in Troy, Alabama. William attended Howland High School, a suburb of Warren in Northeast Ohio. He attended college at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
.
After retirement Guy became active in business and politics
Politics
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
, with one of his roles being Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports (France)
The Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports is, in the Government of France, the cabinet member in charge of national and public sport associations, youth affairs, public sports centers and national stadia...
in the conservative government of Alain Juppé
Alain Juppé
Alain Marie Juppé is a French politician currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He also served as Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997 under President Jacques Chirac and the Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs from 2010 to 2011...
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 http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/olympic_news/full_story_uk.asp?id=1580. In 2006, president Jacques Chirac
Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac is a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988 , and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.After completing his studies of the DEA's degree at the...
amnestied
Amnesty
Amnesty is a legislative or executive act by which a state restores those who may have been guilty of an offense against it to the positions of innocent people, without changing the laws defining the offense. It includes more than pardon, in as much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the...
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
French National Assembly
The French National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. The upper house is the Senate ....
Jean-Louis Debré
Jean-Louis Debré
Jean-Louis Debré is a conservative French political figure. He was President of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2007 and has been President of the Constitutional Council since 2007.-Biography:Debré was born in Toulouse...
commented that it gave an unpleasant impression of "self-washing machine" http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3224,36-779331,0.html?xtor=RSS-3224 but said it was a "courageous" move that he would not have made;
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days earlier....
, president of the majority party UMP
Union for a Popular Movement
The Union for a Popular Movement is a centre-right political party in France, and one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country along with the center-left Socialist Party...
, disapproved such uses of amnesty. http://archquo.nouvelobs.com/cgi/articles?ad=politique/20060530.OBS9552.html&host=http://permanent.nouvelobs.com
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
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, are a major international multi-sport event to be celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games, as governed by the International Olympic Committee...
.