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American skateboarder Nia Houston shows off her faded bronze medal (Social Media)

Overseas Network, August 9According to a report by the New York Post on August 8, American skateboarder Nia Houston recently posted on social media, complaining that the bronze medal he won in the skateboarding event at the Paris Olympics was of poor quality and had severely faded.

On July 29, Houston won the bronze medal in the men's street skateboarding final at the Paris Olympics. He recently returned to the United States and found that the quality of the bronze medal he was awarded was problematic. "These Olympic medals looked great when they were first issued, but after a period of time, I found that the quality was not so good, and it looked rough." He also posted a video showing the bronze medal that had faded. Houston said, "The quality of Olympic medals needs to be improved."

The New York Post said that this year's Olympic medals were designed by Paris jewelry brand CHAUMET and produced by the Paris Mint, with 2,600 and 2,400 medals produced for the Olympics and Paralympics respectively. The Oxford Economics Institute estimates that the value of a gold medal is US$1,027 (about RMB 7,361). (Wang Shanning, Overseas Network)

Editors: Wang Shanning, Liu Qiang