2024 PARIS OLYMPIC MEDAL DETERIORATION

Two swimmers have become the latest athletes who took part in last summer's Olympics to complain about the state of their bronze medals.

France's Clement Secchi and Yohann Ndoye-Brouard both revealed the condition of the medals on social media, almost five months after they finished third in the 4x100 metre medley relay.

The issue first emerged before the Games had even finished after skateboarder Nyjah Huston shared images showing his medal had already appeared to tarnish.

United States team-mates Nick Itkin and Ilona Maher followed suit days later by revealing the state of the medals they respectively won in fencing and rugby sevens.

Months later, Secchi posted a picture of his bronze medal along with the caption, "Crocodile skin", prompting a response from Ndoye-Brouard suggesting his own medal now looked more like one from the "Paris 1924" Games.

The images heaped further embarrassment on Paris 2024, which had promised last summer that any damaged medals would be replaced.

Huston had been the first to raise the alarm, revealing that his own had begun to deteriorate after just 10 days.

"All right, so these Olympic medals look great when they're brand new, but after letting it sit on my skin with some sweat for a little bit and then letting my friends wear it over the weekend, they're apparently not as high quality as you would think," he said.

"I mean, look at that thing. It's looking rough. Even the front. It's starting to chip off a little. So yeah, I don't know, Olympic medals, you maybe got to step up the quality a little bit."

To read the complete article, see:
Olympians reveal how much Paris 2024 medals have already deteriorated (https://sports.yahoo.com/olympians-reveal-much-paris-2024-173844682.html)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
2024 PARIS OLYMPIC MEDALS (https://www.coinbooks.org/v27/esylum_v27n31a25.html)

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