Olympic athlete shows disgusting quality of bronze medal a week after winning it

An Olympic athlete has shown the pretty shocking condition of his bronze medal only a week after winning it.

Team USA skateboarder, Nyjah Huston, finished in third place at the 2024 Paris Games' men's street final, after fellow American Jagger Eaton took home the silver and Japan’s Yuto Horigome took the gold last Monday (29 July).

Now, just a matter of days after taking home the bronze accolade, the 29-year-old athlete has taken to social media to share exactly what his medal looked like now.

Team USA's Nyjah Huston won a bronze medal at the men's skateboarding street final. (ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Yesterday (8 August), Nyjah took to Instagram to share with his 5.3 million followers that the medal was looking a little 'rough'.

Speaking on his story, he began: "Alright, so these Olympic medals look great when they're brand-new.

"But after letting it sit on my skin with some sweat for a little bit and letting my friends wear it over the weekend."

The skateboader continued: "They're apparently not as high quality as you'd think.

"Look at that though. It's looking rough. Even the front, it's starting to chip off a little.

Nyah took to Instagram to share the state of his medal with his millions of followers. (Instagram/@nyjah)

"So yeah I don't know, Olympic medals, we gotta step up the quality a little bit."

He also joked in the caption of a another photo that the 'medal [was] looking like it went to war and back'.

In a follow-up Instagram story, Nyjah added: "I guess the medals are meant to be in cases.

"Not meant for the send."

Now, of course, all competitors are going for gold but have you ever wondered just how much money an Olympic gold medal is actually worth?

Now, not many people know that the prestigious award is actually not made entirely out of solid gold but, instead, is mostly silver.

The medal weighs 529 grams and over 95.4% of it is actually made of silver, totalling to 505 grams.

The skateboader showed fans the 'rough' condition of the medal. (Instagram/@nyjah)

According to various reports, 18 grams consists of iron and only the remaining six consists of pure gold which acts as the plating of the medal.

Forbes has since confirmed just how much the 2024 Olympic gold medal, which around 10,500 athletes are after, is really worth.

While the value of the medal can't be measured - given than most of these athletes have dedicated their entire life to pursuing such a goal - the materials of it can.

All medals are reportedly 85 millimetres across and 9.2 millimetres thick and,

according to the outlet, the podium cost of a 2024 Olympic gold medal is approximately $950 - a figure based on the 'spot price' of gold, silver and iron on the morning of 24 July and 'the amount of those materials that are used for the medal'.

While that may not seem like much, it's 'possibly the highest value of any gold medal in the history of the modern games' after flying by the $708 record for the 2012 London Olympics.