Swede Van der Poel donates Olympic gold to Chinese prisoner
Poel has donated one of his gold medals to Chinese-born Swedish citizen Gui Minhai, who is imprisoned in China. The skater, who won the 5,000m event at the Beijing Olympics and then broke the world record adding the 10,000m gold, handed the medal to Gui's daughter Angela on Thursday to raise awareness of the human rights situation in China, according to a statement released by Amnesty International. "I want human rights abuses in China to be reduced and Gui Minhai to be released.
