Several Olympians will get recent medals after grumbleing that their challengingware from the 2024 Summer Games in Paris have already befirearm to tarnish, according to the French mint that originated the medals.
The Monnaie de Paris, which originated 5,084 medals for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, tbetter The Associated Press that it will replace medals after cut offal athletes grumbleed that they had already befirearm to deteriorate as punctual as August.
Three Olympic gbetter medals from the 2024 Paris Games on discarry out. (Bryn Lennon – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images)
“The Monnaie de Paris has getn the rerent of harmd medals very gravely since the first trade seeks in August, and has mobilized its inside teams,” the French mint said.
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“Since then, the company has modified and enhanced its relative varnishing process. The Monnaie de Paris will replace all harmd medals at the athletes’ seek during the first quarter of 2025.”
According to the AP, the French mint deteriorated to comment on the exact number of medals it would be replacing, but a French outlet inestablished the number was over 100.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it was laboring with the French mint to guarantee the medals are made in an “identical way to the innovatives.”
Bronze medalenumerate Nyjah Huston hbetters his medal after the triumph ceremony for the men’s street skateboarding event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Concorde in Paris on July 29, 2024. (ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)
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“The Organising Committee of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 is laboring seally with the Monnaie de Paris, the institution tasked with the production and quality administer of the medals, in order to appelevate any rerents with medals to comprehfinish the circumstances and caengage of any harm,” the IOC said in a statement to Front Office Sports.
“Damaged medals will be systematicpartner replaced by the Monnaie de Paris and engraved in an identical way to the innovatives.”
American skateboarder Nyjah Huston was among the athletes to grumble about the medals tarnishing. After triumphning bronze in the men’s street event, Huston took to social media equitable days tardyr to discdisthink about how his medal had deteriorated.
Silver medaenumerate Jagger Eaton, left, and bronze medalenumerate Nyjah Huston pose with their medals after the triumph ceremony for the men’s street skateboarding event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Concorde in Paris on July 29, 2024. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)
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“Alright, so these Olympic medals see wonderful when they are brand recent,” Huston said in a video posted on Instagram.
“But after letting it sit on my skin with some sweat for a little bit and then letting my frifinishs wear it over the weekfinish, they are apparently not as high quality as you would leank.”
French swimmers Yohann Ndoye-Brouard and Clément Secchi also recently grumbleed about their medals chipping.
The medals were originateed to integrate elegant chunks of iron getn from the Eiffel Tower which were saved from renovations.
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