[QUOTE][URL="http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/london/story/2012-07-30/How-did-Brazilian-break-bronze-medal/56587586/1"]LONDON[/URL] (AP) – A Brazilian judoka accidentally broke his Olympic bronze medal when he brought it into the shower. Now he's fighting to have it replaced.
Felipe Kitadai said he was carrying the medal everywhere. He took it with him to the shower as a joke, then dropped it while trying to keep it from getting wet.
Kitadai told Brazil's GloboEsporte.com that the part holding the medal's string broke, and now he can't wear it around his neck. He said there's also a small dent on it.
Kitadai won the bronze in the men's 60-kilogram division Saturday.
The Brazilian Olympic Committee says it will request a new medal even though it knows the [URL="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Organizations/Sports+Leagues/International+Olympic+Committee"]International Olympic Committee[/URL] has no obligation to give Kitadai another one.[/QUOTE]
Was it made of chocolate really?
He's lucky it didn't break into a Brazilian pieces..oh wait, it DID didn't it?
Is Top Gear running the Olympics or something? Holy shit. We're only a couple days in and there's been problem after problem.
[QUOTE=TestECull;37007732]Is Top Gear running the Olympics or something? Holy shit. We're only a couple days in and there's been problem after problem.[/QUOTE]
I don't think you can pin this one on LOCOG, especially since the composition of the medals is decided by the IOC
this olympics is a carnival of failure
i remember reading some anthony horrowitz book where a medallion made of caesium was used as a murder weapon. haha.
[editline]30th July 2012[/editline]
(the victim wore it in the shower)
ITT: people call the olympics full of failure because of a single unrelated accident involving a medal after it was won.
[QUOTE=Mrs. Moon;37007881]ITT: people call the olympics full of failure because of a single unrelated accident involving a medal after it was won.[/QUOTE]
heh, single accident. check out the rest of the news mate.
Accidents happen. The guy was just having fun celebrating his medal. No one deserves to have this happen.
I hope he can get another medal. Melt down the old one and reuse it.
[QUOTE=TestECull;37007732]Is Top Gear running the Olympics or something? Holy shit. We're only a couple days in and there's been problem after problem.[/QUOTE]
I want to assume Monty Python is posthumously controlling the Olympics.
Want to wear your medal in the shower? Well, then you should've gotten silver.
Or, just MacGyver it and make a new string, and whack the dent back into place.
Problem solved!
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;37008198]Or, just MacGyver it and make a new string, and [B]whack the dent back into place.
[/B]
Problem solved![/QUOTE]
So by making the dent bigger, it disappears?
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;37008198]Or, just MacGyver it and make a new string, and whack the dent back into place.
Problem solved![/QUOTE]
They should offer to give him a new one, but really just do this. And change it so it has a quote on it "Fuck it, good enough" - Sebastian Coe
[QUOTE=areolop;37008242]So by making the dent bigger, it disappears?[/QUOTE]
Whack it back in the other direction.
The dent gives it character.
Are the actual sporting events going smoothly at least? That's all I really care about.
Why are you dumbasses calling the Olympics a failure? How is it? These is nothing even to do with the Olympics, it could have been any other race and any other medal; the guy was a dumbass for wearing it in the shower but should still, and probably will get it replaced. It isn't the fault of the UK or the Olympics, nowhere close to being so; these Olympics aren't a failure in any sense of the word.
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;37008748]Why are you dumbasses calling the Olympics a failure? How is it? These is nothing even to do with the olympics, it could have been any other race and any other medal; the guy was a dumbass for wearing it in the shower but should still, and probably will get it replace. It isn't the fault of the UK or the Olympics, nowhere close to being so.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it isn't a part of the trainwreck that it is already. It was a competitor's fault, not the IOC's.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;37008771]Yeah, it isn't a part of the trainwreck that it is already. It was a competitor's fault, not the IOC's.[/QUOTE]
Back up your argument jesus christ
[sp]You're also wrong about the trainwreck part, because it isn't, not by a long shot. [/sp]
[QUOTE=TestECull;37007732]Is Top Gear running the Olympics or something? Holy shit. We're only a couple days in and there's been problem after problem.[/QUOTE]
Ambitious, but rubbish.
Couldn't the people who made the original medal just resmelt it to get rid of the dent?
Vancouver 2010 Olympics best olympics 2010
British quality castings. They're still pretty bad. :v:
[QUOTE=areolop;37008242]So by making the dent bigger, it disappears?[/QUOTE]
Homeopathic repair.
maybe if he busted it up in 2010 the dent wouldn't be all that noticeable
[img]http://www.chrisd.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/2010-winter-olympic-medals1.jpg[/img]
I read the title and imagined that the medal itself split down the middle.
[QUOTE=CheeserCrice;37007850]i remember reading some anthony horrowitz book where a medallion made of caesium was used as a murder weapon. haha.
[editline]30th July 2012[/editline]
(the victim wore it in the shower)[/QUOTE]
I loved that book
[QUOTE=CheeserCrice;37007900]heh, single accident. check out the rest of the news mate.[/QUOTE]
The key word there was "unrelated". This turn of events has nothing to do with the Olympics being shitty this year, he just happened to dent his medal in the shower.
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