According to foreign media reports such as the British Telegraph on the 8th (local time),
American men’s skateboard street bronze medalist Naija Houston (29)
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He revealed that the bronze medal had become rusty in less than a week.
According to the video released by Houston, the front of the medal was corroded and turned gray.
The back edge was also peeled off.
Houston is
“It looks really nice when it’s new, but it’s got a little sweat on it.”
“I made my friends wear it too and this is what happened,” he explained.
He said, “The quality of the medal was not as good as I expected.”
“It looks as if he went to war and came back,” he pointed out.
The bronze medal at the Paris Olympics is made from a mixture of copper, tin, and zinc alloy and weighs 455g.
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Chaumet took charge of the design and was evaluated as having added symbolism by expressing continental France.
A controversy over quality arose while the Olympics were in full swing.
Previously, it was said that medals were corroded at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
There were over 100 cases of requests for exchange to the IOC.
Zhou Xueying, China’s gold medalist in women’s trampoline at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
He said that when he rubbed the gold medal with his hand, the surface peeled off.
A video of this was released on social media, causing controversy.
-Reporter Lee Yu-na, Digital News Team
YTN Lee Yuna (lyn@ytn.co.kr)
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