‘Invaluable to me:’ Olympic ring, jackets stolen from athlete’s north Fulton home

Police are looking for a burglar who broke into an Olympic athlete’s Roswell apartment and stole memorabilia from the games, including an Olympic ring and jackets.

Chris Kinney, a native of Stockbridge, was on Team U.S.A. as a bobsledder during the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

He told Channel 2′s Bryan Mims that the burglary happened early Tuesday morning at Big Creek Apartments on Belcourt Parkway.

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“I don’t know what it was, but something just told me to check my camera,” said Kinney, who was traveling in Florida at the time. As he looked at a live video feed of his living room, he saw a man on the prowl. “I went into panic mode,” he said.

Kinney called Roswell police and immediately drove home. That’s when he discovered that many of his Olympic belongings, including a ring with his name engraved on it, had been stolen. “My entire Olympic kit, my opening and closing ceremonies jacket, my press jackets,” Kinney said.

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