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More Than 100 Olympic Medalists Say Their Paris Medals Are ‘Deteriorating’ as Company Promises Replacements

More than 100 Olympic and Paralympic athletes from the 2024 Paris Games have reached out to request a replacement medal as many have begun to 'deteriorate' in recent months.

people.com

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More than 100 Olympic and Paralympic athletes have reached out to the Monnaie de Paris to request a replacement medal as many have begun to “deteriorate” in recent months, according to a new investigative report from the French website La Lettre.

A spokesperson for Monnaie de Paris, who produced more than 5,000 medals for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, told PEOPLE in a statement that they would not confirm the number of "damaged medals" that it has received complaints about, but said they're working with the 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee "to assess medal claims and understand the circumstances and cause of damage" to athletes' medals.


The French mint confirmed that the "replacement of damaged medals has been initiated" in some cases and that "all damaged medals will be replaced and identically engraved at the request of athletes during the 1st quarter of 2025."


La Lettre's investigative report about the “defective” medals on Monday said the medal controversy has led the French mint to fire three people on its production and quality staff. The Monnaie de Paris denied this Tuesday, saying it's "false" that three employees were fired over the medal fiasco.

Several athletes have complained on social media since the closing ceremony in August, sharing photos of their medals that appear to show them flaking and cracking in several places.

U.S. skateboarder Nyjah Huston first spoke out about the medal quality in mid-August when he shared images on social media and said it looked like his medal “went to war.”

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[AJUMP23]

Sad that they cut corners and go cheap on what they award participants. They should go back to using real metals.

 

[DeepEnigma]

They looked cheap to begin with.

Now we know.

 

[LectureMaster]

Not surprised since this is what you got for the opening ceremony .

 

[DeepEnigma]

Not surprised since this is what you got for the opening ceremony .

 

[AJUMP23]

French medals surrendered to the atmosphere.

 

[GymWolf]

Were these the worst olympics games ever?

 

[DeepEnigma]

Were these the worst olympics games ever?

You had dudes beating up women.

 

[Hookshot]

I joined this website to discuss how crappy these games were but the waiting period was so long it ended before I could.

 

[j0hnnix]

Were these the worst olympics games ever?

 

[ReBurn]

They probably saved a lot of money ordering from Temu.

 

[GymWolf]

You had dudes beating up women.

Tbf i watched brazilian mma "female" fighters beating women for a long time in the ufc

 

[DKehoe]

Were these the worst olympics games ever?

I wasn't around for it but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the Nazi one was worse.

Hitler tweaking out in the crowd.

Although him getting shown up by "The Master Race" losing a bunch was good.

 

[DeafTourette]

I wasn't around for it but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the Nazi one was worse.

Hitler tweaking out in the crowd.

Although him getting shown up by "The Master Race" losing a bunch was good.

He marked out like Peter Griffin when Jesse Owens won

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Were these only Bronze medals? These are subject to oxidation, but it’s way too fast. Maybe they messed up the percentage of bronze vs. tin?

 

[DeepEnigma]

I wasn't around for it but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the Nazi one was worse.

Hitler tweaking out in the crowd.

Although him getting shown up by "The Master Race" losing a bunch was good.

Same energy

 

[Kilau]

Wow, they sacré bleu it.

 

[LimanimaPT]

Not surprised since this is what you got for the opening ceremony .

Hahaha, that is funny.

 

[chakadave]

Were these only Bronze medals? These are subject to oxidation, but it’s way too fast. Maybe they messed up the percentage of bronze vs. tin?

It’s looks like they just aren’t bonded to the material. You’d think they would electronplate it or something.

 

[Brigandier]

You had dudes beating up women.

 

[AJUMP23]

Same company does these coins and should have handed them out instead.

 

[Musashipan]

DEI medals

 

[cormack12]

They looked cheap to begin with.

Now we know.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Serves them right for winning

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

You had dudes beating up women.

That shit was straight up celebrated in certain circles

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Were these the worst olympics games ever?

Yes...

 

[Makki]

Not surprised since this is what you got for the opening ceremony .

Is that Concord cosplay?

 

[BennyBlanco]

Were these the worst olympics games ever?

 

[FeralEcho]

 

[CGNoire]

So a ceremony that celebrated "Pretend Genders"...

...gave away "Pretend Medals".

 

[Doczu]

 

[DeepEnigma]

'Idiocracy' was predictive programming. This could have been a skit in the movie.

 

[Mr Hyde]

 

[RagnarokIV]

They walk forward flailing the arms around and then slowly drop back into a children's break fall. That's literally exactly how we teach babies and children a backwards breakfall in Judo.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

It's metaphorical.

 

[GymWolf]

They walk forward flailing the arms around and then slowly drop back into a children's break fall. That's literally exactly how we teach babies and children a backwards breakfall in Judo.

As a dude who did judo during childhood, i can confirm.

 

[poodaddy]

French medals surrendered to the atmosphere.

Underrated comment.

 

[kurisu_1974]

You had dudes beating up women.

That's actually not true, Imane Kelif was never a man. I think we should fight fake news on both sides, right?

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Mass ordered from Temu.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

 

[GymWolf]

That's actually not true, Imane Kelif was never a man. I think we should fight fake news on both sides, right?

Lol even her name is similar to feminine private parts but not quite yet.

You can't make this shit up

 

[DeepEnigma]

That's actually not true, Imane Kelif was never a man. I think we should fight fake news on both sides, right?

 

[chromhound]

Cutting corners gone wrong

 

[DosGamer]

I forgot all about the Australian break dancing... lmao.
I think that sums up the Olympics.

 

[StabbyStabStabStabStab]

That's actually not true, Imane Kelif was never a man. I think we should fight fake news on both sides, right?

I actually felt sorry for her - she got well hammered by the press / everyone accusing her of falsifying her front bottom

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I actually felt sorry for her - she got well hammered by the press / everyone accusing her of falsifying her front bottom

Funny thing is technically you cant blame her. She was terrible, but according to the process she qualified from her region. So it shows her competitors stink that bad to begin with and the rules for qualifying are typical junky global quotas or tourneys. Instead of picking the best, the tournament has to spread it out like an Olympics version of DEI.

I dont follow soccer, but I get it when people say World Cups are kind of stupid because you get a ton of bad teams from countries who can barely playing soccer. But for sake of revenue and representation they got to be there. But then some really good European or SA teams get cut because there's too many of them already. The NHL All Star game is one of those games where every team has to have at least one player represented. I think baseball is the same. So you get all these fringe players making it who shouldnt even be there.

 

[kurisu_1974]

I know you don't care if it doesn't fit your narrative. Carry on!

 

[DeepEnigma]

I know you don't care if it doesn't fit your narrative. Carry on!

Ironic.

 

[kurisu_1974]

Ironic.

I don't get it sorry. Where's the irony exactly?

 

[DeepEnigma]

I don't get it sorry. Where's the irony exactly?

Narratives and all that gravy. Dude has XY chromies and punches like a dude.

He has all the advantages of a man over those XX chromies he was slugging.