{"id":2275298,"date":"2026-02-10T04:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2275298"},"modified":"2026-02-10T04:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:33:21","slug":"theres-a-major-problem-with-the-medals-at-the-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/theres-a-major-problem-with-the-medals-at-the-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s A Major Problem With The Medals At The Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>MILAN, Feb 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Whether gold, silver or bronze, there is one thing Milano Cortina Winter Olympics medals have in common: they can break.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Games organisers on Monday said they have launched an investigation into a spate of mishaps that have left Olympic medallists, including American downhill skiing champion Breezy Johnson, sporting a cracked and chipped medal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cWe are fully aware of the situation and you have seen the pictures,\u201d Milano Cortina Chief Games Operations Officer Andrea Francisi told a press conference on Monday. \u201cWe are looking into what exactly the problem is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cWe will pay maximum attention to the medals &#8230; so that everything will be perfect because this is one of the most important things for the athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Johnson is one of several decorated athletes in Italy who have seen their medals snap, crack and pop only minutes after the award ceremonies in the first few days of the Games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cIt is heavy, it\u2019s broken. It\u2019s a look,\u201d Johnson told reporters shortly after the podium ceremony, showing off her cracked and chipped medal in one hand as the separated ribbon hung around her neck. \u201cI was jumping up and down in excitement, then it just fell off.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>She is not the only one, with Germany biathlete Justus Strelow seeing his bronze medal lying cracked on the floor during celebrations at their team headquarters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Sweden\u2019s cross-country skier Ebba Andersson\u2019s silver prize from the women\u2019s skiathlon suffered a similar fate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cThe medal fell in the snow and broke in two,\u201d Andersson was quoted as saying by Swedish broadcaster SVT. \u201cNow I hope the organisers have a \u2018Plan B\u2019 for broken medals.\u201d (Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; Editing by Ken Ferris)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"cli cli-related-articles js-cet-subunit\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN, Feb 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Whether gold, silver or bronze, there is one thing Milano Cortina Winter Olympics medals have in common: they can break. Games organisers on Monday said they have launched an investigation into a spate of mishaps that have left Olympic medallists, including American downhill skiing champion Breezy Johnson, sporting a cracked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2275299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[419547,419548],"class_list":["post-2275298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-olympics","tag-winter-olympics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Theres-A-Major-Problem-With-The-Medals-At-The-Winter.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275300,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275298\/revisions\/2275300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}