BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 18. The issue of replacing the medals of Azerbaijani athletes won at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics is currently under review by the French organizing committee, said Chingiz Huseynzade, Vice President of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Azerbaijan, Trend reports.
Speaking to journalists, Huseynzade explained that the organizing committee is in talks with the company that manufactures the medals.
"We are likely to be informed soon, and the medals will be replaced with new ones," he added.
To note, athletes who won medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris have returned more than 100 medals to the organizing committee with complaints about the poor quality of the products.
Following the initial complaints, the organizing committee promised to change the medals of all athletes who complained of damage or poor quality. However, amid the mass return of medals, Marc Schwartz, director of the Paris Mint, where the medals were made, opted to fire three heads of the production department.
These include the loss of quality in the gold medal of Judo Olympic champion Hidayat Heydarov (73 kg), the bronze medal of freestyle wrestler Magomedkhan Magomedov (97 kg), the gold medal of Judo Olympic champion Zelim Kotsoev (100 kg), the silver medal of Taekwondo athlete Gashim Magomedov (58 kg), and the silver medal of boxer Alfonso Dominguez (92 kg), as well as the bronze medals of Greco-Roman wrestler Hasrat Jafarov (67 kg) and freestyle wrestler Giorgi Meshvildishvili (125 kg).
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