IOC replaces swimmer’s medals destroyed in LA fires

After the originals were destroyed during the wildfires in Los Angeles, Olympic champion swimmer Gary Hall Jr. received replicas of the 10 medals he won at different Olympic games.

During a ceremony in Lausanne, the 50-year-old American received the medals from Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee.

Hall Jr. thanked the medal winners. Nobody has ever lost ten Olympic medals before, which is probably why.

I’ll take care of these better, I promise.

This word solidarity and its definition, which cannot be removed, “is the realization that outweighs any sense of loss through this process, which cannot be taken away.”

At the 1996, 2000, and 2004, Olympic Games in Atlanta, Sydney, and Athens, Hall competed for the United States, winning five gold, three silver, and two bronze medals, respectively.

However, he was forced to leave his Pacific Palisades home and the medals as the wildfires that claimed at least 29 lives and destroyed large portions of Los Angeles grew.

This was going straight to our hearts when we read your tragic story about losing your house, your possessions, and all of your worldly possessions, according to Bach.