Jewelry, guns and money were stolen from the home of one of Alaska's Olympic medalists. But her [View all]

Jewelry, guns and money were stolen from the home of one of Alaska’s Olympic medalists. But her medal stayed safe inside an old sock.


The home of Olympic snowboarder Rosey Fletcher-Grunwaldt was burglarized this week, a daylight break-in that stripped the family of jewelry, guns, money and precious keepsakes.

Left behind inside a cabinet in Fletcher-Grunwaldt’s bedroom was an old wool sock. Nearly everything else in the cabinet, including jewelry, had been snatched. Everything except an old gray sock and an old birthday card.

Inside the sock was Fletcher-Grunwaldt’s bronze medal from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

“They took everything on the shelf but the medal in the wool sock,” Fletcher-Grunwaldt said Friday. “It’s just an old, wool sock. I don’t even think they looked at it.

“… I think they thought it was too old to steal.”

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