Olympic gold medals are peeling weeks after Tokyo Games, says Chinese athlete

Olympic gold medals are peeling weeks after Tokyo Games, says Chinese athlete

Olympians from the Tokyo 202 Games have claimed that their medals are beginning to peel, just weeks after they were won. The organisers went to great efforts to take an innovative and environmentally friendly approach to the Games, including by making the gold, silver and bronze medals from recycled electronics metal. But, despite best intentions, it appears to have backfired. China's Zhu Xueying, who won gold in the women's trampoline gymnastics, posted photos to social media of her medal which had visible damage to its upper left-hand corner. “Can your medals … peel off too?” Zhu wrote in the caption on Chinese social media website Sina Weibo, referencing the dark patch on the gold plating. She garnered thousands of comments from followers, before adding: "Let me clarify this… I didn't mean to peel the thing off at first, I just discovered that there was a small mark (like pic one) on my medal," she wrote. "I thought that it was probably just dirt, so I rubbed it with my finger and found that nothing changed, so then I picked at it and the mark got bigger." Her compatriot, swimmer Wang Shun, also reportedly said his gold medal was peeling. The