They went for the Jacket and BONUS" they got a medal.

That person should return it. That is bad behaviour.

why did they take them off to begin with?

Who is so socially desperate that they have to take their medal to the bar to begin with?

Perhaps you should read the article:

They were among a group of athletes who went to the club after attending a royal reception at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the British team's success at the 2012 Games.

You. Do. Not. Take. Important. Items. To. A. Club.

Period. I don't care where you just came from. Leave it in the car. Go back to the hotel and drop it off. They may be good athletes but their common sense is lacking.

I never imagined anyone actually wearing Olympic medals around their neck as a form of casual wear. What were these morons thinking? Leave them at home and then go out and party.

You never take valuable items to bars or nightclubs.

Unless the club was inside of Buckingham Palace, then they were stupid to take them to the club. I thought going to the palace was a celebration in its own right. Why would you need to go to a bar to celebrate a celebration??? Laying your medal on the table rather then leaving it in your car after you drove to the bar, doesn't make any sense. Taking it from off from around your neck makes no sense.

Haven't the Olympics been over for a couple of months? I'd say these guys are a little desperate for attention if they are still wearing their medals around their necks to go out to the bars, they must be using them to pick up bar skanks who are easily impressed by something like that. I say they deserve to have them stolen for being dumb asses.

Amazing how many

(a) can't read that they had just attended an event

(b) can't fathom out that a reception similar to the honoring done by American presidents is rarely conducted right after an event occurred

(c) don't know much about London and the geographic location of most of the night clubs

(d) assume all athletes live in London

(e) criticize but probably have never won anything besides a ribbon at pre-K when averybody has to win something

Voter-in-LA...

I don't care about any of those things. You don't leave an Olympic medal in a jacket at a club. If I were in the same situation, I'd have had that thing around my neck, under my shirt.

I hope they get their medals back, but I also hope they learned a lesson about how to protect their valuables.

The full impact of the incident only hit him when he got home, he said. “I suddenly realized my daughter would never see this medal -- what I’d worked so hard for, for 12 years.”

Maybe you should have gone home to your family instead of going out to a night club! Wow, do you have your priorities messed up.

Olympic medals 'stolen' as athletes celebrate at London nightclub

Why did Peter Jeary at NBC News put "stolen" in quotation marks? The article seems to indicate that the medals and jackets were indeed stolen, so why the quotation marks? NBC needs to send all of its reporters back to grade school to learn proper English grammar, punctuation and spelling. It is a very rare occurrence that NBC reports do not contain multiple errors. Those that manage to be correct are usually only a couple of paragraphs long so there is less room for mistakes.

I love everyone's blame the victim mentality. Those atheletes earned those medals and they were being honored for their achievements. Then some lowlife scumbag who hasn't earned anything in his/her life thinks it's his/her perogative to steal something that doesn't belong to them. And it's the athlete's fault? wow, you guys are petty & jealous. No one has the right to take something that doesn't belong to them. It doesn't matter where the owner placed it.

njcyn, everyone blames a thief, but those athletes got victimized for being careless and that's what people are criticizing. It's like buying a new Ferrari, and then parking it in the middle of some high crime ghetto, and then being amazed that it's not there when they return.

Amazing how many

A) Are so pathetic as to take their medals with them beyond the ceremony.

My son did that in soccer.

When he was 6.

Stolen witth quotes, probably means - at this point, they just want the possesions back and are willing to overlook how, who, when, under what circumstances they transfered ownership.

as a lusty lad in my high teens and twenties - in a moment of celebration, I let a "freind of the moment" wear my sport jacket and ring. Sometime during the celebations I apparently became a right prat ... It was weeks later, that the young lady - saw me at another club, drinking away the sorrow of my lost treasures.

She returned the items - along with a dressing down for boarish behavior. There was no "real" theft as much as my being an arse. Lesson learned - everything isn''t funny. So if you choose to drnk, leave your valuables at home. Never that anything you can't afford to lose (no matter how posh the club) - when you know you will be less than sober, aware or looked after.

Almost as bad as jerks who make comments without bothering to read the article or take the time to find out any details. They had their Medals and Jackets with them because they had just come from a reception a Buckingham Palace celebrating GB's success in the games. Here is a photo of the real jerk who stole them.

http://twitter.com/2012parters/status/261162654717063168/photo/1/large

Almost as dumb as people who use "their" instead of "they're".

oh i see

Sam Adams, I did not find any confused uses of "their", "they're" or "there" in the above posts. I did find "metal" used in place of "medal"...

Amazing that certain dimwits are blaming the victims instead of the thief. They can take their medals anywhere they wish, no one has a right to take them....Wow!

Did you not see, "And, they drink until their wasted." Their should be THEY'RE. As in, THEY ARE.

Melanne74, where did you obtain your education??

"They're" is a contraction of "They are". It's the SAME word. A contraction lets you shorten the spelling.

BP put your reading glasses on, she's showing the original idiot why it isn't their as he wrote but they're as in they are...

With the lack of ability to read, it's no wonder why this country is in such a mess. And sadly there's no spelling/reading test before people can vote.

Boy did we get off topic in a hurry.

LOL y'all are dumb, as in you all haha

lot of educated people here

Because athletes are drunkards! LOL wtf?

I love it how kwhit1902111 gets all delusional and starts talking about these guys like she knows them. They are Olympic athletes! XD They could possibly be getting drunk, sure. But you assuming that that are drunks because they are Olympic athletes is hilarious. Athletes have the stigma of apathy towards their body's? I think not. Maybe rockstars or fraternity members, but Olympic athletes? Please!

They had their Medals and Jackets with them because they had just come from a reception a Buckingham Palace celebrating GB's success in the games.

Earth to Skup - uh, why not leave the medals in their cars, go back to their hotel rooms (if they were staying at a hotel) and putting the medals in the safe, wear the medals under their shirts or even wear them outside of their shirts, etc. Get the idea, Einstein? That is what other posters are implying. If I had just been to a reception and had something in my possession that was valuable to me, I would not just leave it lying around on a table at a bar.

dispicable

David - try "despicable", or better yet, click on spell-check before posting.

This country is doomed. No one can read or write. What is worse is that they don't care that they can't.

MDrn - NBCNews.com has never been known for proofreading, correct grammar or punctuation, and correct spelling. That might improve after the writers graduate from third grade.

Bronze isn't worth much at all. Hey mark randall how many bronze medals have you gotten from participating in the Olympic games. Ah thats what I thought.

Didn't you read the article? They spent 12 yrs of their lives earning those medals. I would think they're priceless to them.

None of the medals are pure metal's. They are all just alloy's of the metal's. You are awarded the medals by their color, not their actual metal content.

I read an article that said the gold medal has $613 of gold in it. That's less then half an ounce of pure gold. The silver medal has around $400 of pure silver, and the bronze medal has about $200 worth. If those large medals were pure, you would have pounds of weight around your neck. The small girls would hardly be able to stand, and the gold medal would be worth $30,000-$40,000 a piece. They gave out over a hundred gold medals, so that's a lot of money. So they either give each winner a penny sized medal of real gold, or a large medal with a little amount of gold in it.

This years bronze medals, according to the IOC, are worth approximately $1.67, Gold was worth around $600, and I'm sorry I've forgotten what they said the silver was worth.

If those large medals were pure, you would have pounds of weight around your neck.

BP the grape - It all depends on density. With the exception of gold, there is not that much variation in the density of most metals. Gold is denser but still not so heavy that a small woman couldn't stand with the medal around her neck if it were solid gold. Check your facts before posting inane comments. Some readers are dumb enough to believe you.

Makes you kind'a wonder what is happening... They can't give out "real" Gold or Silver medals - because it would cost too much. Then where do the millions and millions of dollars go? It costs money to get on the list to host the Olympics, it takes more millions to have the Olympic committe to visit the proposed sites - then, of course the endless rounds of dinners, meetings, flights, architectural drawings.. revisions, more revisions, borrowing millions to build the sites. then police, security teams, housing... blah, blah, blah... de, blah - blah.

But the "Stars" of the show get diddly squat, and (at least in the USA) are taxed in their "winnings".

As the failed weight lifter might say: Thanks Uncle Sam - all I got for my trouble was a hernia and a tax bill...

At least the NBA, NFL, etc.. Pro players get a few mill and steroid deformities for their trouble. What is the attraction of being treated like a teenager for most of your life and a life expectation of dying "broke" in your 50's or 60's?

Few in the Sports industry ever get out of it with anything to show for it. But you must admit, its a great ride while you are on top!!!!!

About as sad as a Wife abuser who finds out that his new victim (Wife) ... is Mohammad Ali's daughter... and she ain't in a good mood!

what a bunch of drunk fools. Why would you take something so valuable to a bar??

Because you're insecure and this is your one chance to be "famous"...in a bar

lol!

Because you're insecure and this is your one chance to be "famous"...in a bar...

I don't think most of those guys have a problem getting "famous" - women atheletes are just as needy as the guys. From the reports of all the news phreks - keeping track of who was not sleeping in their own bed - would require a Spread sheet and visio diagrams to track the connections - No wonder some of the atheletes were too tired to perform at their best! Even at 14 - 20 something, you need some rest.

Unfortunately not every awards ceremony were televised. The best they could hope for is if someone took private video of the ceremony which if they could locate that person now, two months after closing ceremonies, would be a miracle in itself!!