U.S. Winter Olympics champion Breezy Johnson has warned fellow winners not to jump around too much with their medals because they keep breaking. Officials are investigating the spate of breakages suffered by the Games’ opening weekend winners, including 30-year-old gold medalist Johnson, who said, “Don’t jump in them. I was jumping in excitement, and it broke. I’m sure somebody will fix it. It’s not crazy broken, but a little broken.” Similarly, U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu posted on social media saying, “My medal doesn’t need the ribbon,” along with an image of a broken award. Milan Cortina organizing committee’s COO said on Monday, “We are aware of the situation, we have seen the images. Obviously, we are trying to understand in detail if there is a problem. But obviously, we are paying maximum attention to this matter, as the medal is the dream of the athletes, so we want that, obviously, in the moment they are given it, that everything is absolutely perfect, because we really consider it to be the most important moment. So we are working on it.”
