A complete of 220 requests have been made to switch medals gained on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.
The medals had been designed by French luxurious jeweller Chaumet and are set with a chunk of iron taken from the Eiffel Tower throughout its renovation within the twentieth Century.
Nonetheless, British diver Yasmin Harper, who gained Staff GB’s first medal of the Video games, was among the many athletes to note her medal was displaying indicators of “tarnishing”.
Paris 2024 organisers mentioned any broken medals will probably be changed and the French Mint advised AFP it has acquired 220 such requests – equal to 4 % of the entire awarded.
“The French Mint [Monnaie de Paris] has changed a few of them and is constant its alternative operation on the request of the athletes,” it mentioned in an announcement.
Harper, who gained girls’s 3m synchronised springboard bronze with accomplice Scarlett Mew Jensen, mentioned later within the Video games she had observed “small bits of tarnishing”.
That got here after American skateboarder Nyjah Huston criticised the standard of his medal, posting a video of the bronze he gained within the males’s road skateboarding that appeared discoloured and chipped.
A Paris 2024 spokesperson mentioned on the time it was working intently with the Monnaie de Paris to grasp the reason for the injury and promised “broken medals will probably be systematically changed and engraved in an an identical strategy to the originals”.
