Few things are more precious than winning an Olympic gold medal. Each Games there is a different design of the medals, usually reflective of the host city. Sochi, host city of the upcoming Winter Games, has just made the 2014 accolade a little more special…at least for athletes who are lucky enough to secure their medal on Day 9 of the Games. Special medals will be embedded with pieces of the Russian meteorite that on February 15, 2013 crashed into the city of Chelyabinsk. Athletes who win their medals on the one year anniversary of that crash (February 15, 2014) will receive the unique meteorite embedded medals.
The Russian meteorite crash injured 1,600 people and caused approximately $33 million in damages. The Chelyabinsk Region Culture Minister, Alexei Betekhtin was quoted explaining a reason for incorporating the meteorite into the medals. Betekhtim said, “We will hand out our medals to all the athletes who will win gold on that day, because both the meteorite strike and the Olympic Games are the [sic] global events.”
Time will tell who gets to bring home this astronomical prize, but there are only seven Olympic finals scheduled for that day. The seven events are the women’s super giant slalom, women’s cross-country skiing relay, the women’s 1,000m and men’s 1,500 short track, the men’s 1,500 meter speedskating, the men’s skeleton, and the men’s K-125 ski jump. Ref. en.rsport.ru, ftw.usatoday.com Pic. Ref. ftw.usatoday.com
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