Posted on 02/09/2026 12:16:08 PM PST by xxqqzz
Milan-Cortina 2026 organisers say they are giving "maximum attention" to why Olympic medals are breaking after several athletes experienced issues with theirs.
Two of the USA's gold medallists, Breezy Johnson and Alysa Liu, revealed the ribbon had come away from the medal soon after they received their prize.
Johnson, who won gold in the women's downhill alpine skiing, showed her broken medal at the post-event media conference.
"So there's the medal. And there's the ribbon," she told reporters. "And here's the little piece that is supposed to go into the ribbon to hold the medal, and yeah, it came apart."
Liu disclosed a similar issue in a video on social media, external after she won gold as part of the United States squad in the figure skating team event.
The video shows Liu holding up the medal and ribbon in separate hands, with the text: "My medal don't need the ribbon."
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“Let’s hope the condoms don’t break, too.”
Why ?
(other than leftist ‘unwanted’ children killed )?
Wait a minute!
The “bronze” medal is actually BRASS?
-PJ
I’ll take “People who are clueless about motorcycles” for $200, Alex.
Since they get paid for getting a medal, the medal absorbed the cost of getting paid.
That is low....cheaping out on the gold and the bronze. At least the silver was mostly silver but still. When I found out about the gold medals decades ago it really took some shine off the Olympics for me. I mean the medals are the central symbol and artifact of the games and they are faux.
That’s a problem, why ?
I had a couple of Fiats while living in Europe. Mechanically not bad cars, but the rust proofing and paint really sucked.
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