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Breezy Johnson is sliding from one snowy hurdle to another.
Indeed, the alpine skier shared her gold medal broke off its handle shortly after she won the women’s downhill title at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Feb. 8.
“Do not jump in them. I was jumping in excitement and it broke,” Breezy told reporters in a post-ceremony interview, before showing the detached medal to the camera. “So there’s the medal, there’s the ribbon, and here’s the little piece that is supposed to go into the ribbon to hold the medal. Yeah, it came apart.”
While an unexpected mishap, the 30-year-old—whose golden victory marked Team USA’s first win in the Milan Cortina Games—indicated her medal won’t stay in this condition forever.
“I’m sure someone will fix it,” she joked. “It’s not crazy broken, but it’s a little broken.”
Breezy’s latest win comes after she hit two icy roadblocks in her career. The athlete didn’t compete in the downhill course at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics due to a knee injury. At the time, she revealed in a lengthy Instagram note she was training in Italy when she “immediately felt a massive crack in my knee,” and later found out a “large chunk” of her cartilage had been dislodged.