In the James Bond film Die Another Day, it is claimed the Miranda Frost character, played by Rosamund Pike, had won a gold medal in fencing at the 2000 Sydney Olympics by default. It supposedly came after Gustav Graves, the main villain of the film and the identity adopted by North Korean Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, had organised the real gold medalist's death by drug overdose. Frost was coached by Verity, played in the film by Madonna.