Olympic Athletes Hoping To Exchange Bent-Up Medals For Normal Ones
FEBRUARY 27, 2010 | ISSUE 46•08 | ONION SPORTS
VANCOUVER—A number of medal winners at the 2010 Winter Olympics admitted Tuesday that they looked forward to exchanging their inexplicably beat-up medals for regular ones that weren’t completely dented for some reason. “When I was on the podium, I was like, what the hell is this?” said speed skater Shani Davis, adding that his gold and silver medals looked as though they had been “beat to shit.” “Then I figured that they were just using these old medals for the ceremony so nobody would lose the nice, normal, non-fucked-up ones during all the excitement. I know a bunch of people who just recycled theirs afterward.” Alpine skier Julia Mancuso told reporters that she knew an auto-body guy who could probably hammer her medals flat.
