2024-03-14 03:39:30
Former decathlete Robert Změlík will sell his medals from major events, including the Olympic gold from Barcelona 1992, due to debts from his business. This was reported by the daily e15. According to the insolvency register, Změlík’s debts amount to 1.7 billion crowns, which the former successful athlete disagrees with.
“Creating 1.7 billion crowns in liabilities for a company that had an annual turnover of 250 to 400 million is simply not possible,” Změlík told e15. According to him, some significant liabilities are counted several times.
“No one did anything about it, and then it looks like I’m the biggest tunneller or incompetent trader who created such a loss. It won’t be long before I can prove everything, and that will only be a sensation, how insolvency and the insolvency mafia work in our country.” stated
As well as his most valuable sporting trophy of the Barcelona Games, he will also sell gold from the 1997 World Indoor Heptathlon Championships and the European Indoor Championships five years earlier.
Změlík’s debts are related to the collapse of Starlife, a food supplement company based on traditional Chinese medicine, which he founded during his sports career. The company went bankrupt the year before last, and as part of debt settlement, for example, its headquarters in Hostivica was sold for 151 million crowns.
The fifty-four-year-old Změlík pays 21,000 crowns from his salary a month to pay off debts.