Here's your medal - try not to lose it

Winning athletes walk away from the podium with their medals around their necks but are often at a loss over what to do with them before leaving the athletes' village and heading home where they can be securely stored. [TEXT: Belinda Goldsmith, Reuters]

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An IOC spokesman said typically they get one or two requests for replacements every year and they produce new medals marked replica to distinguish them from the originals. He said cities hosting Olympics had an obligation to transmit the moulds for their medals to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, so replicas could be made.
An IOC spokesman said typically they get one or two requests for replacements every year and they produce new medals marked replica to distinguish them from the originals. He said cities hosting Olympics had an obligation to transmit the moulds for their medals to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, so replicas could be made.