Olympic bosses investigate why medals are breakingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Breezy Johnson revealed her broken gold medal after winning the women’s downhillByEmma SmithBBC Sport journalist in MilanPublished31 minutes agoMilan-Cortina 2026 organisers say they are “looking closely” at why Olympic medals are breaking after several athletes experienced issues with theirs.Two of the USA’s gold medallists, Breezy Johnson and Alysa Liu, revealed the ribbon had come away from the medal soon after they received their prize.Johnson, who won gold in the women’s downhill alpine skiing, showed her broken medal at the post-event media conference.”So there’s the medal. And there’s the ribbon,” she told reporters. “And here’s the little piece that is supposed to go into the ribbon to hold the medal, and yeah, it came apart.”Liu disclosed a similar issue in a video on social media, external after she won gold as part of the United States squad in the figure skating team event.
The video shows Liu holding up the medal and ribbon in separate hands, with the text: “My medal don’t need the ribbon.”
