The French mint tells PEOPLE it will replace "all damaged medals" awarded to 2024 Olympic winners in the coming months Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019.

Contacted by the AP, the French Olympic committee and the IOC also would not reveal figures. In total, the French mint produced 5,084 medals for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.

That seems cruelly ironic after Los Angeles organizers sold the Games as a no-build event.None of the Olympic venues has been damaged by the still-burning fires that tore through Pacific Palisades ...

The Monnaie de Paris, a French mint, will replace a number of Olympic medals that have begun deteriorating after being awarded in the 2024 Games, according to the Associated Press. "The Monnaie de ...

Canada's Kailtyn Lawes and John Morris won the first-ever mixed doubles Olympic gold medal at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang. The Olympic trials in late 2021 were cancelled due to the pandemic.

When Los Angeles brought home the Olympic flag from Paris at last year's closing ceremony, the host-city-in-waiting did so in style. Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise leapt from a plane ...