Olympic Medal Manufacturer To Replace Nyjah Huston's Bronze After Complaint | TMZ Sports
Nyjah Huston's Olympic medal problem is about to be remedied ... the manufacturer of the prize tells TMZ Sports it's going to replace his award as soon as it can.
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00:00Welcome back to TMT Sports, Mike and Mojo.
00:08Mojo, we talked about skateboarding star,
00:11Nigel Huston, last week.
00:12Nigel, of course, was in Paris at the Olympics
00:16and earned himself a bronze medal.
00:19But after a couple of days, Mojo, of some partying,
00:23maybe getting the medal a little wet,
00:25Nigel said that the medal had basically gotten screwed up.
00:29It had gotten sort of dull and just looked crappy, Mojo.
00:33As a matter of fact, if you forgot what Nigel said last
00:36week, here he was.
00:38All right, so these Olympic medals
00:40look great when they're brand new.
00:42But after letting it sit on my skin
00:45with some sweat for a little bit and then
00:47letting my friends wear it over the weekend,
00:50they're apparently not as high quality as you would think.
00:58I mean, look at that thing.
01:02It's looking rough.
01:06Even the front is starting to chip off a little.
01:12So yeah, I don't know.
01:16Olympic medals, you've got to step up
01:19the quality a little bit.
01:22So there was Nigel.
01:23He said, step up the quality a little bit.
01:26Well, yeah, I think that's what they need to do, Mojo.
01:29And I think they're trying to make things right.
01:32Because after we heard what Nigel said,
01:34we made some phone calls.
01:35And we called the manufacturer of the bronze medals.
01:39I promise I'm going to say this wrong,
01:41so I apologize in advance.
01:43La Monet de Paris, Mojo, the manufacturers.
01:47Here's what they said to us, Mojo.
01:49The medals are the most coveted objects of the games
01:53and the most precious for the athletes.
01:55Damaged medals will be systematically
01:57replaced by the Monet de Paris and engraved
02:02in an identical way to the original.
02:05So I don't think, Mojo, they're saying or denying
02:09that these things got a bit tarnished.
02:10And they're saying, look, we want to make things right.
02:13We know how important the medals are.
02:15I say, good on them.
02:17Hey, man, we got the what and the how.
02:19But I'm needing the why here, Babcock.
02:22Why did this happen?
02:25You know, we buried him a little bit last week.
02:27But now the more I'm thinking about it,
02:29the line about him giving this thing to his friends.
02:33What were these friends doing with this medal, buddy?
02:35Because if they did a Vegas-style party trip,
02:39I mean, obviously, they probably stayed pretty local.
02:42But Paris has some hot spots.
02:43I can absolutely tell you that firsthand.
02:46If they went out on the town with this thing,
02:49I know how some people party.
02:51If they're skateboarders, I mean,
02:53they probably get pretty wild.
02:55I mean, that medal could have been made of anything.
02:57It's coming back looking like that.
02:59So I want to know what's going on with the user error.
03:02You know, if this is on the Manoir, Monet,
03:05whatever you called it, Dave Perry, if it's on them.
03:09I'm trying to figure that piece of it out as well.
03:12But honestly, if I'm him,
03:14I'm looking at this as like a Rob Gronkowski,
03:18Lombardi trophy kind of situation
03:20where if you're the New England Patriots,
03:23your favorite cup is the one that's dented
03:25because you got a really good story
03:27behind one of your knucklehead teammates
03:29doing something wild with it.
03:30And you have 80 of them already.
03:32So why not have some fun with at least one of them?
03:34But yeah, it adds a little bit more flavor,
03:37a little bit more character.
03:40Have their own story.
03:40But this one, even more so.
03:42I kind of like it better.
03:44I do too.
03:45And if you want to know about Nige Houston's partying,
03:47go to the TMZ website, type in his name.
03:50This dude likes to party.
03:51Let's just put it like that.
03:54Maybe he can coach up Noah Lyles
03:55on some new fast twitch dance moves.