Are medals awarded during the Paris 2024 Olympics losing their luster?

French bronze medal-winning Olympic swimmer Yohann Ndoye-Brouard wondered over the weekend whether a medal he captured is from this summer or 100 years ago.

French bronze medal-winning Olympic swimmer Yohann Ndoye-Brouard wondered over the weekend whether a medal he captured is from this summer or 100 years ago.

That's because the bronze he won in the 4x100-meter medley relay at the Paris 2024 Games seems to be deteriorating faster than a Léon Marchand lap.

He rhetorically questioned on social media whether his medal was from 2024 or 1924, with crying emojis.

Ndoye-Brouard is the latest Paris 2024 Olympian to gently complain that their prized mementos are losing their shine four months after the Games.

The French newspaper Le Méridional published a picture Saturday of the bronze won by Ndoye-Brouard 's 4x100 medley teammate Clement Secchi, whose medal also appeared to be quickly losing its luster.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/are-medals-awarded-paris-2024-olympics-losing-luster-rcna185796

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