Over 220 paris Olympics, Paralympics Medals To Be Replaced, Says French Mint
The French Mint has obtained 220 requests to replace medals gained at the 2024 paris Olympics and Paralympics, it told AFP on Friday.
Athletes have complained that their medals have grow to be tarnished or chipped, occasionally within weeks of the video games ending last yr.
"The French Mint (Monnaie de Paris) has changed a number of them and is continuing its replacement operation on the request of the athletes," it stated in a assertion.
The international Olympic Committee said in january it'd systematically update "defective" medals.
The French Mint prefers to call them "broken".
It said it had "carried out the whole thing possible, from august 2024, to make certain the replacement of the medals worried".
The alternative medals may be identical to the originals, it said but a defensive varnish can be delivered to boom their sturdiness.
a few Olympians from the paris video games have taken to social media to percentage snap shots of the nation in their medals.
one of the first to achieve this became American skateboarder Nyjah Huston, who gained bronze in the street skateboarding opposition on July 29.
Ten days later he published a photograph of his medal, complaining approximately its pleasant.
"those Olympic medals appearance splendid whilst they're state-of-the-art, however after letting it take a seat on my skin with some sweat for a touch bit after which letting my pals wear it over the weekend, they're seemingly now not as high first-class as you will suppose," he said.
"it's looking tough. Even the front. it's starting to chip off a little."
The 220 medals to get replaced constitute 4 percentage of the five,084 awarded on the paris Olympics and Paralympics.
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