The gold medalist asked the International Olympic Committee if they could replace her broken medal.
Williams was recorded swinging the medal around during celebrations of the team's gold medal win, but she admitted this isn't what broke her medal. It happened later in the celebrations while she was dancing with her teammates. First, the band came off of the medal.
"I had it on my shoulder like a little purse, and I was just jumping, dancing, jumping," Williams said in a TikTok video. "And I jumped down, and it just fell off. So everybody was dancing, and I was roaming around trying to get my medal off the ground. It has a dent now, so it's definitely one of a kind."Williams might not be stuck with a broken gold medal forever, though, as she's already reached out to the International Olympic Committee about replacing it.
"I don't know if I'm going to get it fixed," Williams continued. "We are waiting to hear from the IOC, the Olympic Committee. They said I could probably get one. I had to prove to them that it was, in fact, damaged, but now we're just waiting to see. If not, honestly, I think it's a cool, funny story."
Williams doesn't seem too upset about the situation as she laughed off the whole story. It's definitely a unique story to share that not many other Olympic athletes can relate to. Williams came off the bench in all six matches of the team's Olympic run and scored one goal in their win vs. Germany.Madison Williams is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated, where she specializes in tennis but covers a wide range of sports from a national perspective. Before joining SI in 2022, Williams worked at The Sporting News. Having graduated from Augustana College, she completed a master’s in sports media at Northwestern University.
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