{"id":65890,"date":"2026-02-10T08:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/winter-olympics-officials-find-fix-for-broken-medals-and-promise-repairs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:57:25","slug":"winter-olympics-officials-find-fix-for-broken-medals-and-promise-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/winter-olympics-officials-find-fix-for-broken-medals-and-promise-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics officials find fix for broken medals and promise repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Downhill champion Breezy Johnson among the affected<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\u2018A solution has been identified, and a fix put in place\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After days of embarrassing stories about Winter Olympic medals cracking, snapping, and even breaking in two after falling in the snow, organisers say they have finally fixed the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have also promised to repair any of the medals that were awarded in the opening three days of competition in Milano Cortina, after identifying on Monday that the issue stemmed from the medal\u2019s cord, which is fitted with a breakaway mechanism required by law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/10\/winter-olympics-officials-replace-broken-medals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downhill champion Breezy Johnson among the affected \u2018A solution has been identified, and a fix put in place\u2019 After days of embarrassing stories about Winter Olympic medals cracking, snapping, and even breaking in two after falling in the snow, organisers say they have finally fixed the problem. Officials have also promised to repair any of &#8230; <a title=\"Winter Olympics officials find fix for broken medals and promise repairs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/winter-olympics-officials-find-fix-for-broken-medals-and-promise-repairs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Winter Olympics officials find fix for broken medals and promise repairs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}