{"id":13355,"date":"2012-08-10T02:19:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T00:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/olympics-heres-your-medal\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T02:19:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T00:19:35","slug":"olympics-heres-your-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympics-heres-your-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-Here&#8217;s your medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Belinda Goldsmith<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Aug 9 (Reuters) &#8211; British tennis player Andy<br \/>\nMurray&#8217;s two dogs were photographed wearing his silver and gold<br \/>\nOlympic medals from the London Games.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brazilian judoka Felipe Kitadai damaged his bronze medal<br \/>\nwhen he dropped it in the shower, getting a replacement from<br \/>\nLondon officials.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Venezuelan fencer Ruben Limardo Gascon was spotted wearing<br \/>\nhis gold medal on the London underground.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Winning athletes walk away from the podium with their medals<br \/>\naround their necks but are often at a loss over what to do with<br \/>\nthem before leaving the athletes&#8217; village and heading home where<br \/>\nthey can be securely stored.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South African swimmer Cameron van der Burgh who won the 100<br \/>\nmetres men&#8217;s breaststroke, said it was hard to let his gold<br \/>\nmedal out of his sight.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>British rower Helen Glover, the first British woman to win<br \/>\nan Olympic rowing event with her partner Heather Stanning, said<br \/>\nshe was sleeping with her gold medal by her pillow.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Olympians have been known to lose their medals while still<br \/>\nat the Games and are advised not to lose it as no insurance<br \/>\ncomes with the hard-won gong, and gold medals at London are<br \/>\nvalued at about $706 at current metal prices.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once handed over the medal becomes the responsibility of<br \/>\nthe athletes,&#8221; said a spokesman from the London Olympics<br \/>\norganising committee LOCOG.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON Aug 9 (Reuters) &#8211; British tennis player Andy Murray&#8217;s two dogs were photographed wearing his silver and gold Olympic medals from the London Games. Brazilian judoka Felipe Kitadai damaged his bronze medal when he dropped it in the shower, getting a replacement from London officials. Venezuelan fencer Ruben Limardo Gascon was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}