United States’ Breezy Johnson shows her gold medal in the alpine ski women’s downhill race, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. That’s the message from gold medalist Breezy Johnson at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics after she and other athletes found their medals broke within hours. Olympic organizers are investigating with “maximum attention” after a spate of medals have fallen off their ribbons during celebrations on the opening weekend of the Games. U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu posted a clip on social media of her team event gold medal, detached from its official ribbon. So we are working on it.”It isn’t the first time the quality of Olympic medals has come under scrutiny.

Source: New York Times February 10, 2026 03:25 UTC