American skateboarder Nyjah Huston recently took to social media, not to show off the high quality of his Olympic achievement, but to highlight the poor condition of his medal less than two weeks after receiving it. The 29-year-old displayed the wear and tear of his bronze medal on Instagram. “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 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 is starting to chip off a little.
” Huston added in a later post that the “medal looks like it went to war and back.” American skateboarder, Nyjah Huston who won Bronze at the Paris 2024 Olympics has reservations about the quality of the medal after a week in possession of it.😱 🎥 @nyjah pic.
twitter.com/jT4tYmdb3X — Sports Radio Brila FM (@Brilafm889) August 10, 2024 He wasn’t the only bronze medalist to comment on the state of their trophy. Yasmin Harper , who won Team GB’s first medal of Paris 2024 by claiming bronze with partner Scarlett Mew Jensen in the women’s 3m synchronized springboard diving, also noted some issues.
“There’s been some small bits of tarnishing,” Harper said, according to the BBC . “I think it’s water or anything that gets under the medal that’s making it go a little bit discolored, but I’m not sure.�.