Paris 2024 offers new Olympic medal after Huston says bronze looks ‘like it went to war’

• Skateboarder shows medal looking scuffed and dull
• Bronze degrades when exposed to oxygen
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Olympic skateboarder Nyjah Huston appears to have gone from a bronze medalist to a kind of bronze medalist at the Paris Games.

The American won bronze on 29 July but 10 days later he posted an Instagram story showing the medal appeared to have degraded significantly, with the surface looking dull and rusted.