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 VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Wolfgang Schwarz, who won the 1968 Olympic figure skating gold medal, was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for plotting to kidnap the teenage daughter of a Romanian businessman and hold her for nearly $4 million ransom.
Schwarz, 59, made a surprise confession earlier in the day. A prosecutor said Schwarz was motivated by "greed and selfishness" last October in plotting the abduction and hiring someone to commit the crime, which was never carried out.
"I admit it was my idea to kidnap the woman. I cannot explain it," the Austria Press Agency quoted Schwarz as telling the court during questioning.
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