Better than gold

Shtetl-Optimized reports that a seventeen-year-old at the International Olympiad in Informatics intentionally gave up his gold medal by wearing an Israeli flag during the medal announcement, defying the event's boycott of Israel. The same teen, Yotam Budnik, also won a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad, which he was allowed to keep. The blog post framed the forfeiture as even more impressive than the win itself.

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