"Why Is the Quality Like This"... 220 Requests for Medal Exchanges at the Paris Olympics
It has been reported that there have been 220 cases of damaged medals from the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics, leading to requests for replacements at the Paris Mint in France.
On the 3rd (local time), the British online media outlet 'Inside the Games' cited an announcement from the Paris Mint, stating, "Out of the 5,084 medals awarded at the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, 220 replacement requests have been received, accounting for 4% of the total." The Paris Mint stated, "We have been taking all necessary measures to replace medals since August of last year, based on athlete requests."
The first to raise concerns about the medal quality was Naija Houston (USA), who won the bronze medal in the men's skateboarding event at the Olympics. In August last year, he revealed the damaged surface of his bronze medal on his Instagram, saying, "After it touched my sweat-soaked skin and I walked around with friends a few times over the weekend, it ended up like this." He added, "The quality (of the medal) doesn't seem as good as expected, and it looks like the medal came back from a battlefield."
Previously, the Paris Olympic and Paralympic medals attracted attention for containing iron fragments from the repair process of the Eiffel Tower. The medals were designed by the jewelry brand Chaumet. Chaumet is a jewelry brand under the global luxury group Louis Vuitton Mo?t Hennessy (LVMH). The front of the medal features the winged goddess of victory, Nike, flying from the Panathenaic Stadium in Greece.
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Inside the Games pointed out, "The gold medals are plated with silver, so they are relatively less prone to damage, but the bronze medals, which are an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin, are prone to oxidation when exposed to air and moisture." They further reported, "During the process of urgently finding a substitute for the originally planned polish for the bronze medals, a banned substance was detected, causing complications."
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