Paris Olympic medals to be replaced after several athletes complain of tarnishing

Several Olympians volition person caller medals aft complaining that their hardware from the 2024 Summer Games successful Paris person already begun to tarnish, according to the French mint that produced the medals. 

The Monnaie de Paris, which produced 5,084 medals for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, told The Associated Press that it volition regenerate medals aft respective athletes complained that they had already begun to deteriorate arsenic aboriginal arsenic August. 

"The Monnaie de Paris has taken the contented of damaged medals precise earnestly since the archetypal speech requests successful August, and has mobilized its interior teams," the French mint said. 

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"Since then, the institution has modified and optimized its comparative varnishing process. The Monnaie de Paris volition regenerate each damaged medals astatine the athletes’ petition during the archetypal 4th of 2025."

According to the AP, the French mint declined to remark connected the nonstop fig of medals it would beryllium replacing, but a French outlet reported the fig was implicit 100. 

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it was moving with the French mint to guarantee the medals are made successful an "identical mode to the originals."

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"The Organising Committee of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 is moving intimately with the Monnaie de Paris, the instauration tasked with the accumulation and prime power of the medals, successful bid to appraise immoderate issues with medals to recognize the circumstances and origin of immoderate damage," the IOC said successful a connection to Front Office Sports.

"Damaged medals volition beryllium systematically replaced by the Monnaie de Paris and engraved successful an identical mode to the originals."

American skateboarder Nyjah Huston was among the athletes to kick astir the medals tarnishing. After winning bronze successful the men’s thoroughfare event, Huston took to societal media conscionable days aboriginal to uncover however his medal had deteriorated. 

"Alright, truthful these Olympic medals look large erstwhile they are marque new," Huston said successful a video posted connected Instagram. 

"But aft letting it beryllium connected my tegument with immoderate sweat for a small spot and past letting my friends deterioration it implicit the weekend, they are seemingly not arsenic precocious prime arsenic you would think." 

French swimmers Yohann Ndoye-Brouard and Clément Secchi besides precocious complained astir their medals chipping. 

The medals were crafted to see polished chunks of robust taken from the Eiffel Tower which were saved from renovations. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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