Winter Olympics athletes to have broken medals fixed

Winter Olympics athletes to have broken medals fixedMedia caption, ‘That didn’t just happen!’ – Johnson’s Daley delight leads to medal mishapByEmma SmithBBC Sport journalist in MilanPublished4 minutes agoMilan-Cortina 2026 organisers have “identified” a reason for the spate of broken medals at the Winter Olympics and mentioned any athletes affected will have theirs fixed.Two of the USA’s gold medallists, Breezy Johnson and Alysa Liu, revealed the ribbons had come away from their medals soon after they received them.Johnson, who won gold in the women’s downhill alpine skiing, showed her broken medal at the post-event news conference.”So there’s the medal. And there’s the ribbon,” she mentioned. “And here’s the little piece that is supposed to go into the ribbon to hold the medal, and yeah, it came apart.”Liu highlighted a similar issue in a video on social media after she won gold as part of the USA’s squad in the figure skating team event.The video shows Liu holding up her medal and the ribbon in separate hands, with the text: “My medal don’t need the ribbon.”The issue also affected the German team who won bronze in the biathlon. An Instagram video shows one of the athletes’ medals falling from the ribbon as they jumped up and down in celebration at the team hotel.Games organisers mentioned on Monday they were giving the problem “maximum attention” and have now confirmed they have found a fix.Media caption, ‘I’m sure somebody will fix it’Dramatic or distracting? Olympic drone footage catches the eye