Olympics: Leslie Claudius searches for his golden memories

Between 1948 and 1956 Leslie Claudius, former Indian hockey player and Padma Shri, won gold medals in every Olympics - London, Helsinki and London. But the 85-year-old has lost all those golden memories.

The medals were stolen from his house and were never retrieved. Leslie Claudius, who holds the record, along with Udham Singh, for having won the maximum number of Olympic medals in field hockey, is now planning to ask the International Olympic Committee for replicas.

Claudius feels that the honour he received during his life time has become meaningless with out the mementos.

“We gonna write first through the India Olympic Association to the International Olympic Committee whether it is possible give to give replicas of the medal,” Claudius said to CNN-IBN.

Claudius can count support from the Bengal Hockey Association that plans to petition his case through the India Olympic Association as soon as London games are over.

“There is a precedence earlier that a gold medal of a particular person was replaced on a certain payment. So I think it is high time, since Leslie is our legend, we should go about it,” said Gurbux Singh, Secretary of the Bengal Hockey Association.

The octogenarian legend hopes to have those gold medal replicas back into his collection of trophies. With the proper intervention of hockey bodies in India, Claudius believes he can make this dream come true.