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Olympic great Gary Hall Jr. had 10 medals that were destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires replaced by the IOC in a ceremony on Monday.
Rachael Tilly, of Dana Point, is chaired up the sand after her gold medal win at the 2025 ISA World Longboard Championship, a victory that helped clinch USA Surfing a silver medal.
Former U.S. swimmer Gary Hall Jr. was presented with 10 Olympic medals to replace the ones he won from 1996-2004 but he lost in the Palisades fire.
Olympic swimmer Gary Hall Jr. gets medal replicas for 10 lost in LA wildfires Hall left his 10 Olympic medals behind at his Pacific Palisades home in January during the wildfires.
Gary Hall Jr. received 10 replica medals from IOC President Thomas Bach during an 'emotional; ceremony at Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The medal event program for Los Angeles 2028 has 22 more medal events than Paris 2024. By Jonathan Lloyd • Published April 9, 2025 • Updated on April 9, 2025 at 5:17 pm ...
The LA 2028 Olympics Opening Ceremony is July 14, 2028 with competition through July 30, 2028. The LA28 Paralympic Games will kick off Aug. 15, 2028 and close Aug. 27, 2028.
Two-time Olympians Bronwyn Smith (nee Mayers) and Lea Yanitsas are the other two. With Abby Andrews, Elle Armit, Bronte Halligan, Tilly Kearns and Gabi Palm all returning for their second Olympics, ...
Just two other Olympic medals have commanded higher prices, reports Sports Illustrated ’s Clemente Lisi. In 2013, a gold medal won by American runner Jesse Owens at the 1936 Games in Berlin sold ...
Since the 2024 Olympic Games last August, some Olympians who took home bronze, silver, and gold have taken to social media to complain that their medals are already showing signs of wear and tear.
After the 2016 Rio Olympics, approximately 6,000 medals had to be replaced due to defects, including rusting, flaking coatings, and black spots appearing on the surfaces.
Now those medals are falling apart — and LVMH has fallen silent. In just over 100 days since the Olympics closed, more than 100 athletes have asked for their crumbling medals to be replaced.