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American skateboarder Nyjah Huston left Paris with a extremely coveted Olympic medal.
Although the closing ceremony for the Paris Olympics came about on Sunday, a current photograph from Huston confirmed the shocking situation of the prized medal.
“All right, so these Olympic medals look great when they are brand new,” Huston started in a video posted to Instagram earlier than exhibiting a few of the medal’s put on and tear. “But after letting it sit on my skin with some sweat for a little bit and then letting my friends wear it over the weekend, they are apparently not as high quality as you would think.”
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Bronze medalist US Nyjah Huston holds his medal after the victory ceremony for the mens avenue skateboarding occasion in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Concorde in Paris on July 29, 2024. (ODD ANDERSEN/AFP by way of Getty Images)
Huston additionally confirmed one other facet of the medal, revealing the shortage of shine remaining on the bronze coating.
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“It’s looking rough. Even the front is starting to chip off a little,” he stated. “Olympic medals, you gotta maybe step up the quality a little bit.”
Huston earned the medal a number of days in the past following his third place end within the males’s avenue occasion in Paris. Other medalists have spoken out in regards to the general high quality of the medals that have been awarded to 3rd place finishers at this 12 months’s Summer Games.
Nyjah Huston, of the United States, celebrates in the course of the mens skateboard avenue last on the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 29, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Yasmin Harper, who represented Great Britain on the Paris Olympics, additionally advised that her bronze medal had some noticeable discoloration. Harper took the bronze following her efficiency within the ladies’s 3-meter synchronized springboard diving occasion on July 27.
“There’s been some small bits of tarnishing,” Harper stated, per the Daily News. “I think it’s water or anything that gets under medal, it’s making it go a little bit discolored, but I’m not sure.”
The Paris Mint responded to the criticism by promising to “systematically replace” any Olympic medal that deteriorated. Meanwhile, Olympics organizers stated they’ll conduct a examine of any medal that they study is broken. Upon evaluate, a medal shall be re-engraved whether it is deemed essential.
Bronze medalist Nyjah Huston of Team United States poses on the rostrum in the course of the Men’s Street Finals on day three of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Place de la Concorde on July 29, 2024 in Paris, France. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
The organizing committee additionally stated it had “taken note of the testimony on social networks of an athlete whose medal was damaged a few days after it was presented,” per a press release despatched to Agence France-Presse.
The International Olympic Committee additionally informed the French information company that they have been “working closely with the Paris Mint, responsible for the production and quality control of the medals, and with the National Olympic Committee of the athlete concerned, in order to examine the medal in question to understand the circumstances and the cause of the damage.”
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A spokesperson for the 2024 Paris Games additional clarified by saying, “The medals are the most coveted objects of the Games and the most precious for the athletes. Damaged medals will be systematically replaced by the Paris Mint and engraved identically.”
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