Yohann Ndoye-Brouard, a French swimmer who won bronze at the Olympics, pondered over the weekend whether a medal he earned was awarded 100 years ago or this past summer.
This is due to the fact that his bronze medal from the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 4×100-meter medley relay appears to be decaying more quickly than a Marchand lap L.
Using crying emoticons, he asked curiously on social media whether his medal was from 1924 or 2024.
Four months after the Games, Ndoye-Brouard is the most recent Olympian from Paris 2024 to tactfully lament that their priceless souvenirs are becoming dull.
On Saturday, the French newspaper Le M ridional featured an image of Ndoye-Brouard’s 4×100 medley teammate Clement Secchi’s bronze medal, which likewise seemed to be rapidly fading.
According to Secchi, the medal’s jagged edges gave it a more aquatic appearance, resembling the “Peau de crocodile.”
When U.S. rugby player and social media celebrity Ilona Maher made an appearance on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on August 12, just after closing ceremonies, she gave the world one of the first indications that some medals might not be of Olympic caliber.
She proudly displayed the medal she and her teammates earned in a spectacular victory over Australia, a formidable opponent.
Mutter remarked, “It’s gorgeous (but) it is wearing a little bit,” as she twirled the medal’s edges with her right index finger. “It’s a solid hunk of metal, it’s a great piece of metal.”
Paris 2024 and the International Olympic Committee representatives were not immediately available for comment on Monday.
A tiny fragment of iron from the iconic Eiffel Tower, which has survived three Olympics (1900, 1924, and 2024), is embedded in each of the medals given out last summer.
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