Paris 2024 officials speak out after Olympian revealed shocking state of his medal just a week after winning
Paris 2024 officials have spoken out as skateboarder Nyjah Huston shared how his bronze medal looked just over a week after winning it at the Olympics.
The Team USA athlete came third in the men's street final, behind teammate Jagger Eaton and Japan's Yuto Horigome, who won gold, on 29 July.
Following the close of his event, 29-year-old Huston made his way back to the US, where he has understandably been celebrating one of the greatest sporting achievements of his career thus far.
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However, on 8 August the skateboarder took to Instagram to share how much his Olympic medal had deteriorated since he got it.
Speaking to his 5.3 million followers on social media, he said: "Alright, 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 letting my friends wear it over the weekend.
"They're apparently not as high quality as you'd think.
"Look at that though. It's looking rough.
"Even the front, it's starting to chip off a little.
"So yeah I don't know, Olympic medals, we gotta step up the quality a little bit."
Huston later said that his medal looked like 'it went to war and back'.
Organisers from the Paris Games have now publicly addressed the complaints.
They have seemingly vowed to replace any 'damaged' medals as a spokesperson explained to Mail Sport: "Paris 2024 is aware of a social media report from an athlete whose medal is showing damage a few days after it was awarded.
"Paris 2024 is working closely with the Monnaie de Paris, the institution tasked with the production and quality control of the medals, and together with the National Olympic Committee of the athlete concerned, in order to appraise the medal to understand the circumstances and cause of the damage."
"The medals are the most coveted objects of the Games and the most precious for the athletes," the spokesperson added. "Damaged medals will be systematically replaced by the Monnaie de Paris and engraved in an identical way to the originals."
Huston adds his Olympic bronze medal to the 12 gold medals he has won in the X games and the six gold medals he acquired at the World Championships, as well as his nine silvers and four bronzes across the two.
LADbible has contacted the Paris 2024 press office for further comment.
Team GB's current medal count - 57
Gold medallists
- Rosalind Canter, Laura Collett, Tom McEwen: Equestrian - Eventing team
- Tom Pidcock: Mountain Bike - Men's cross country
- Nathan Hales: Shooting - Men's trap
- Tom Dean, Kieran Bird, James Guy, Jack McMillan, Matthew Richards, Duncan Scott: Swimming - Men's 4x200m freestyle
- Alex Yee: Men's triathlon
- Lauren Henry, Lola Anderson, Hannah Scott and Georgina Brayshaw: Rowing - Women's quadruple sculls
- Bryony Page: Gymnastics - Women's individual trampoline
- Emily Craig and Imogen Grant: Rowing - Women's lightweight double sculls
- Ben Maher, Harry Charles and Scott Brash: Equestrian - Team jumping
- Sholto Carnegie, Rory Gibbs, Morgan Bolding, Jacob Dawson, Charlie Elwes, Tom Digby, James Rudkin and Tom Ford: Rowing: Men's eight
- Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane, Katy Marchant: Track cycling - Women's team sprint
- Keely Hodgkinson: Athletics - Women's 800m
- Eleanor Aldridge: Sailing - Women's kite
- Toby Roberts: Sport climbing - Men's boulder and lead
Silver medallists
- Anna Henderson: Cycling - Women's individual time trial
- Adam Peaty: Swimming - Men's 100m breaststroke
- Tom Daley and Noah Williams: Diving - Men's synchronised 10m platform
- Adam Burgess: Canoe Slalom - Men's canoe single
- Matthew Richards: Swimming - Men's 200m freestyle
- Kieran Reilly: Cycling - Men's BMX Freestyle
- Helen Glover, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten: Rowing - Women's coxless four
- Oliver Wynne-Griffith and Thomas George: Rowing - Men's pair
- Benjamin Proud: Swimming - Men's 50m freestyle
- Duncan Scott: Swimming - Men's 200m individual medley
- Amber Rutter: Shooting - Women's skeet
- Tommy Fleetwood: Golf - Men's individual stroke play
- Joe Clarke: Canoe slalom - Men's kayak cross
- Ed Lowe, Hamish Turnbull and Jack Carlin: Track cycling - Men's sprint
- Josh Kerr: Athletics - Men's 1500m
- Matt Hudson-Smith: Athletics - Men's 400m
- Daniel Bigham, Ethan Hayter, Charlie Tanfield, Ethan Vernon, Oliver Wood: Track Cycling - Men's team pursuit
- Elinor Barker, Neah Evans: Track cycling - Women's madison
- Dina Asher-Smith, Desiree Henry, Amy Hunt, Imani Lansiquot, Daryll Neita, Bianca Williams: Athletics - Women's 4x100m
- Katarina Johnson-Thompson: Athletics - Women's heptathlon
Bronze medallists
- Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen: Diving - Women's synchronised 3m springboard
- Kimberley Woods: Canoe - Women's slalom
- Laura Collett: Equestrian - Eventing individual
- Beth Potter: Women's triathlon
- Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson: Diving - Women's synchronised 10m platform
- Oliver Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge and Freddie Davidson: Rowing - Men's coxless four
- Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Becky Wilde: Rowing - Women's double sculls
- Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding: Diving - men's synchronised 3m springboard
- Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Holly Dunford, Emily Ford, Lauren Irwin, Eve Stewart, Harriet Taylor and Annie Campbell-Orde - Rowing: Women's eight
- Emma Wilson: Sailing: Women's windsurfing
- Jake Jarman: Artistic gymnastics - Men's floor exercise
- Lottie Fry, Becky Moody and Carl Hester: Equestrian - Team Grand Prix Special
- Alex Wilson-Haydock, Laviai Nielsen, Samuel Reardon, Nicole Yeargin: Athletics - Mixed 4x400m relay
- Lottie Fry and Glamourdale: Equestrian - Individual dressage
- Harry Hepworth: Artistic gymnastics - Men's vault
- Alex Yee, Georgia Taylor-Brown, Samuel Dickinson and Beth Potter: Triathlon - Mixed relay
- Kimberley Woods: Canoe slalom - Women's kayak cross
- Sky Brown - Skateboarding - Women's park
- Lewis Richardson: Boxing - Men's 71kg
- Elinor Barker, Josie Knight, Anna Morris, Jessica Roberts: Track Cycling - Women's team pursuit
- Emma Finucane: Track cycling - Women's keirin
- Jack Carlin: Track cycling - Men's sprint
- Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchliffe, Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty, Nethaneel Mitchel-Blake: Athletics - Men's 4x100m
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