Monday, May 5, 2025

U.S. Olympic swim great Gary Hall Jr awarded 10 medals to replace those destroyed in L.A. fires

United States swimmer Gary Hall Jr. poses in Lausanne, Switzerland on May 5, 2025 wearing the replica Olympic medals that International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach presented to him during a handover ceremony after the originals were destroyed with his house in the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year.

After all his Olympic medals were destroyed in the Los Angeles fires, swimming great Gary Hall Jr. set an unexpected record replacing them at International Olympic Committee headquarters Monday in Lausanne, Switzerland.



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