Winter Olympics committee says it's looking into medals coming apart

Milan — The 2026 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee told CBS News it was "aware of an contented affecting a tiny fig of medals and is investigating the matter," aft immoderate athletes who won medals successful the games reported they had broken.

"Don't leap successful them," Breezy Johnson, who won the golden medal successful downhill skiing for Team USA connected Sunday, told reporters aft her race. 

"I was jumping successful excitement and it broke. I'm definite idiosyncratic volition hole it — it's not similar brainsick broken — but it's a small broken," Johnson said.

Team USA Gold medalist Breezy Johnson shows her breached medal to the media pursuing the Women's Alpine Downhill Skiing lawsuit astatine the Tofane Alpine Skiing Center, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, connected time 2 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Feb. 8, 2026. Andrew Milligan/PA Images/Getty

U.S. fig skater Alysa Liu, who won golden with her squad Sunday night, posted a video connected societal media showing her medal besides having breached disconnected the ribbon.

"My medal don't request the ribbon," she wrote.

In an interrogation with CBS News connected Monday, fig skater Danny O'Shea, making his Olympics debut astatine the Milano-Cortina Games, said helium was being cautious with the golden medal helium won with his squad connected Sunday.

"We're conscionable trying not to bash excessively overmuch of the jumping astir ourselves," O'Shea said.

His teammate Ellie Kam told CBS News that her golden medal was, "definitely similar a dense value to carry, but I slept with excavation nether my pillow, truthful that's however I'm keeping excavation safe."

German biathlete Justus Strelow was captured connected camera soon aft his bronze win, picking his breached medal up disconnected the crushed and trying to reattach it to its ribbon.

The video shows Strelow's teammates dancing successful celebration, and portion he's disconnected camera, his medal tin beryllium heard clattering to the floor. When the camera pans to him, helium tries to enactment his medal backmost unneurotic earlier giving up and resuming dancing.

Swedish section media reported that the country's cross-country skier Ebba Andersson's metallic medal besides came apart.

"The medal fell successful the snowfall and broke successful two," Andersson was quoted arsenic saying, according to Reuters. "Now I anticipation the organizers person a 'Plan B' for breached medals."

The Winter Olympics Organizing Committee told CBS News it was "taking the contented seriously, afloat recognizing the value these medals clasp for the athletes."

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