Olympians Complain About the Quality of Medals (4 photos)

This year, the athletes have become extremely picky: they don't like the cardboard beds, they get robbed on the streets, the food is of poor quality. Now it turns out that they don't like the medals either, you see, they peel off quickly.





The medals for this year's games were designed by the Parisian jewelry house Chaumet and made by the Paris Mint, which has made 2,600 coins for the Olympic Games and 2,400 for the Paralympic Games, which start on August 28. But, apparently, the French decided to cut corners and skimp on quality metal for the medals.

This is something that Olympic champion, skateboarder for the US national team, Nyah Huston, six-time world champion in the street discipline according to Street League Skateboarding, is very upset about. He is the winner of 19 X Games medals (13 gold), six SLS Super Crowns and three ESPY awards for “Best Male Extreme Sports Athlete”, one of the most titled and highly paid professional skateboarders in the world. He has many other awards, and all of them, unlike the one in Paris, have retained their appearance.



The 29-year-old won bronze in the men's street final on July 29 and recently returned home to the United States, where he began to notice the quality of the trophy was starting to deteriorate. Within just a few days, it was looking very worn.

"These Olympic medals look great when they're brand new," he wrote. "But after wearing them on my skin for a bit and letting friends wear them over the weekend, the quality isn't as great."





The wear on the bronze, which was only a few days old, is visible on both the back and front. "It looks like it came back from a war," the athlete wrote.

British Olympic bronze medalist Yasmin Harper, who is a diver at the Paris Olympics, said her medal had already begun to fade just a week after it was awarded.



Yasmin won the bronze medal in the women's 3m synchronized springboard competition at La Defense in Paris and has already started complaining about the quality of her medal.

The organizers of the 2024 Olympic Games have promised to replace the athletes' rusty medals since they are so unhappy with the quality of the awards.