Winning an\u00a0Olympic\u00a0medal is the pinnacle of an athlete\u2019s career, the result of years of hard work and sacrifice.<\/p>\n
With gold medals worth hundreds of pounds, you might think that they are high quality.<\/p>\n
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Well, that doesn\u2019t appear to be the case with bronze medals.<\/p>\n
American skateboarder Nyjah Hudson took bronze in the men\u2019s street final on July 29, finishing behind Japan\u2019s Yuto Horigome and fellow American Jagger Eaton.<\/p>\n
0 seconds of 25 seconds<\/span>Volume 90%<\/span> Keyboard Shortcuts<\/span><\/p>\n Shortcuts Open\/Close<\/span>\/ or ?<\/span> Seek Backward<\/span>\u2190<\/span> Increase Caption Size<\/span>+ or =<\/span> <\/p>\n The Team USA star was probably planning to treasure his medal for years to come, but just days after the event, he shared the state of his accolade.<\/p>\n Hudson took to Instagram to share how his medal had seeming deteriorated since he returned home to the United States.<\/p>\n Speaking in post on his Instagram Story, Huston said: \u201cAlright, so these Olympic medals look great when they\u2019re brand new.<\/p>\n \u201cBut after letting it sit on my skin with some sweat for a little bit and letting my friends wear it over the weekend, they\u2019re apparently not as high quality as you\u2019d think. It\u2019s looking rough.\u201d<\/p>\n The athlete called on the Olympics to \u2018step up the quality\u2019 of their medals, saying: \u201cI don\u2019t know, Olympic medals, we gotta step up the quality a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n Nyjah Hudson wasn\u2019t happy with the condition of his medal. [Instagram: @nyjah]<\/cite><\/p>\n Huston posted an image on social media of the medal saying it \u2018looked like it went to war and back\u2019.<\/p>\n The Olympian also posted a screenshot of someone who had seen the photo of the medal, who told him: \u201cLooks like ya won that thing in 1982 mate.\u201d<\/p>\n After the story blew up online, Olympic officials have issued a response.<\/p>\n A spokesperson\u00a0told\u00a0Mail Sport: \u201cParis 2024 is aware of a social media report from an athlete whose medal is showing damage a few days after it was awarded.<\/p>\n \u201cParis 2024 is working closely with the Monnaie de Paris, the institution tasked with the production and quality control of the medals, and together with the National Olympic Committee of the athlete concerned, in order to appraise the medal to understand the circumstances and cause of the damage.\u201d<\/p>\n The IOC also told LADbible Group: \u201cThe medals are the most coveted objects of the Games and the most precious for the athletes.<\/p>\n \u201cDamaged medals will be systematically replaced by Monnaie de Paris and engraved in an identical way to the originals.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Team USA star wasn\u2019t happy. \u00a0Olympic\u00a0officials have responded after a US athlete revealed the condition of his\u00a0\u00a0medal\u00a0days after winning it. Winning an\u00a0Olympic\u00a0medal is the pinnacle of an athlete\u2019s career, … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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