The famous luger, two-time Olympic medalist, and currently the head coach of the Latvian luge team Martins Rubenis has been the victim of a robbery, Jauns.lv reports. A valuable painting by Latvian artist Janis Jaunsudrabīns has disappeared from the athlete's family mansion in Riga. Earlier, the football star's ex-girlfriend stole a collection of works of art from his house.
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“The painting, which was given to my great-grandfather by a family friend, Jānis Jaunsūdrabins, disappeared from the house. If you see it in a pawnshop or at an auction, know that it was in Riga, at Pures Street, 1,” Rubenis wrote on Facebook.
The coach also posted a video on social media of him and his daughter walking around the looted house. “Who did this? The whole house was looted, all the documents were scattered, the doors were broken. Horror! Terrible people were here,” said 47-year-old Martins Rubenis , who clarified that the attackers broke into the house where he was born and spent most of his life, not his current neighborhood. “We need to go back, repair it, and preserve the soul of the house that my great-grandfather put into it when he built it.”
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We should add that Martins Rubenis won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin (the first Olympic medal in luge for Latvia), and also won a bronze medal in the relay at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. After completing his sports career, he began coaching, leading the Latvian national luge team. In 2016, Rubenis married artist and TV presenter Eva Kokorevičs.
By the way, in February 2026, the legendary Latvian supported Ukrainian skeletonist Vladislav Geraskevych, who was removed from participating in the Olympic Games due to a “memory helmet.”
Previously, “FACTS” reported that all of figure skating legend Suriya Bonali's medals were stolen.
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