We might be complaining about the Olympics - the strangely complicated events, the quality of judging, the unattractiveness venues, booing of JD Vance at the opening. There’s the backlash against Czech Ice Skaters using AI generated music. Did the “Minion music”ice skater get to use his music? If he didn’t that sure is a strange outfit. It’s ok - he got approval. Skating is getting a lot of attention - this morning’s article on ice dancing by Cathal Kelly in the Globe and Mail: he would not be comfortable dancing on the ice in his underwear in front of 5,000 people. Another comment on the outfits in skating.
Perhaps this is the highlight - given the whole point of the Olympics is to win a medal. That makes the headline this morning more arresting than anything else:
“Olympic Medals are falling apart, and we’re not even a week in”
Yes, the medals are breaking. The ribbon to break away and the medals are falling off - that’s what happened to the USA alpine ski racing gold medallist Breezy Johnson.
“I’m sure somebody will fix it…It’s not like crazy broken…”
I wonder how many medals have broken. Mostly the stories are anecdotal so no total numbers are given. Don’t worry. “We are fully aware of the situation” says Andrea Francis, who serves as the chief operations officer.
I find out this isn’t new news. The 2024 Paris games had replacement requests skyrocket after athletes returned home and the prizes “began to age.” That was more than 220 (4%) medals - by luxury jeweller Chaumet. They were tarnishing and chipping. Makes you wonder what you get for a Chaumet watch costing between $2,000 and $180,000.
And in search of Olympic medal jokes…
What kind of music do Olympians listen to? Heavy “medal”.
My friend Ty came first in the Beijing marathon 5 years ago, but still has not been awarded his gold medal … China refused to acknowledge Ty won.
It’s ironic that in 2020 the first gold medal won by the U.S. was for … Shooting
That last one doesn’t seem like a joke, but was included in quite a few of the lists and made me laugh. What about you?
This was in my Toronto garden and is Japanese Forest grass - it was so tiny there. This was its winter version with a bit of colouring to bring out the gold. Here in Niagara The garden has huge clumps of it. I’ve noticed it doesn’t all last in my garden, despite the large size it gets to - that’s because the bunnies and voles eat it - maybe right now as I type.
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