While some athletes may have been left disappointed with getting no medal at all, others have dealt with the blow that their coveted awards are broken.A number of medallists at this year\u2019s Winter games have reported problems, with one American star pretty much \u2018immediately\u2019 breaking theirs.Women\u2019s downhill champion Breezy Johnson was celebrating her gold medal win yesterday (8 February) when it was ripped from its ribbon.And now the Winter Olympic Games bosses are investigating.Johnson\u2019s momentous first Olympic gold medal came after her teammate, Lindsey Vonn, suffered a serious crash out on the slope.The 30-year-old had a great run of 1:36:10 and was so buzzing with her win she was \u2018jumping up and down in excitement\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo there\u2019s the medal and there\u2019s the ribbon, and here\u2019s the little piece that is supposed to go in the ribbon, to hold it in the medal,\u201d Johnson showed reporters following the win. \u201cAnd yeah, it came apart. I’m sure somebody will fix it. It’s not crazy broken, but it\u2019s a little broken.\u201dTeam USA joked that her Olympic gold medal \u2018did not pass the jump test\u2019.Similarly, a video shared by Germany\u2019s DSV Biathlon on Instagram saw athlete Justus Strelow dancing along with his teammates when he realised his bronze medal had fallen off the ribbon and hit the floor.\u201cAre they not meant to be celebrated?\u201d the team wrote, as the Olympian can be seen trying to piece it back together.And it was the same case for US figure skater Alysa Liu after the team picked up the event gold medal yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While some athletes may have been left disappointed with getting no medal at all, others have dealt with the blow that their coveted awards are broken.A number… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":108,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37435,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37433\/revisions\/37435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}