Rio 2016 continues to have problems more than nine months after the Olympic flame went out.
It’s been reported that more than 100 medals have been reported to be tarnishing and/or corroding, most of which have been the silver variety.
Rusty Rio Medals: 130 Olympic medals returned to organisers to be fixed https://t.co/lAHyT3203e #sun7 pic.twitter.com/VrCuR3d38g
— Sunrise (@sunriseon7) May 20, 2017
Is this really surprising though? If there were any Olympic medals that were going to fall apart because of some half-assed construction, it would be the games that gave us green swimming pools and a shit problem in the rowing/sailing water.
Anyways, the 120 medals and counting that have been reported to be rotting away will apparently be replaced by the mint that produced them.