The worn or damaged medals awarded to Azerbaijani athletes at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics will be gradually replaced.
This was confirmed by Murad Farzaliyev, spokesperson for the National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan, in a statement to AZERTAC, Idman.biz reports.
“The replacement process has already begun,” Farzaliyev noted. “We are in regular contact with the French side. We've been informed that the process is underway, with medals of French athletes being replaced first. The replacement will proceed in stages. However, no exact timeline has been provided yet.”
Notably, five out of seven Azerbaijani athletes who won medals at Paris 2024 have reported visible deterioration of their awards. These include Olympic judo champions Hidayat Heydarov (73 kg) and Zelym Kotsoiev (100 kg), bronze medalist in freestyle wrestling Magomedkhan Magomedov (97 kg), taekwondo silver medalist Gashim Magomedov (58 kg), boxing silver medalist Loren Alfonso Dominguez (92 kg), Greco-Roman wrestler Hasrat Jafarov (67 kg), and freestyle wrestler Giorgi Meshvildishvili (125 kg).
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