Olympic athlete stunned by condition of medal just one week after winning it in Paris

Huston, making his Olympic debut at the 2024 Games, earned a bronze in the men’s street final, with Japan’s Yuto Horigome and USA’s Jagger Eaton taking gold and silver respectively.

The medal marks the latest accolade in the 29-year-old’s decorated skateboarding career which has seen him win gold 12 times in the X Games and six times in the World Championships.

However, just days after returning from Paris, the American was left stunned by the visible change in his bronze medal which had already begun to chip and lose its bronze colour.

‘So the medals look great when they are brand new,’ he said in a video on Instagram showing off his medal.

Each Olympic medal contains scrap metal taken from the Eiffel Tower from when the Parisian landmark has been refurbished over the years.

Gold medals contain at least six grams of 24-carat gold coating, while the rest is made up of silver.

Silver medals are made up of silver, whilst bronze medals contain copper, zinc, tin, and traces of silver.

The medals also feature the iron as hexagons in the middle of the designs – the geometrical shape of France.

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