Olympics-Alpine skiing-Johnson wants her broken medal back

VIDEO SHOWS: INTERVIEW WITH U.S. DOWNHILL SKIER BREEZY JOHNSON SHOWS: CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, ITALY (FEBRUARY 11, 2026) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. UNITED STATES (U.S.) DOWNHILL SKIER BREEZY JOHNSON BEING INTERVIEWED 2. U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM'S LOGO ON JOHNSON'S SHIRT 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. DOWNHILL, SKIER BREEZY JOHNSON, SAYING:    "No, they couldn't fix it (the golden medal), so they gave me a new one. Although I'm actually curious because then I think some of the later ones they were able to fix. So now I'm kind of wondering if maybe I can get the old one back fixed. (Reporter asking: Are they different?) The new one has not yet been engraved and obviously it's not the one that I got originally, so." 4. JOHNSON'S HANDS 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. DOWNHILL, SKIER BREEZY JOHNSON, SAYING:    "I mean, I would not say that I'm a favourite for even a medal, definitely not a gold one. I think I'm going to go out and I'm going to ski my best. I will make a plan. I know that I'm skiing really well right now and I can do really good things, but there's a lot of really competitive super-G skiers out there. And so, yeah, I'm just going to try to go do my best." 6. JOHNSON BEING INTERVIEWED 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. DOWNHILL, SKIER BREEZY JOHNSON, SAYING:    "I felt for years and years now that I was the hardest worker on the slope. And I didn't necessarily have things to prove for that, but I knew that when I was getting up in the morning and doing two a day, three a day, strength sessions in the summer and working on my technique and plans and visualising and stuff, I felt like I was acting in the ways that were a champion and it was hard to not see that on paper. But I had to come to terms with the fact that like, that was what mattered. And so I think that now having the gold, I think it also validates that work ethic and it makes me feel really confident in continuing with that work ethic. I don't think that I want to change anything and I want to keep, you know, doing my process day-to-day and I know that can work." 8. JOHNSON BEING INTERVIEWED 9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. DOWNHILL, SKIER BREEZY JOHNSON, SAYING:    "The team combined was, it was an interesting day, right? I mean, I think that the conditions were changing all day and obviously the slalom slope wasn't, I think, what we all wanted it to be. And I think Mikaela (Shiffrin), from my perspective, is really just finding her form. She seems very relaxed. And I think yesterday, definitely she was a little rattled by it. And I think she felt really bad for me because she felt like she owed it to me. And I just talked to her and I was like, 'listen, all that any of us can ask of anybody else is that you go out and you try your best. And you did that, and I know you did that'." 10. JOHNSON BEING INTERVIEWED SEEN THROUGH CAMERA'S VIEWFINDER 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. DOWNHILL, SKIER BREEZY JOHNSON, SAYING:    "You know, the Olympics is an interesting thing in the way that it can unite us and I think that the athlete group here is really amazing. And I think that everybody feels very united and I can't wait to see what we do next." 12. BACKGROUND WITH U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM LOGO 13. JOHNSON BEING INTERVIEWED  STORY: Olympic downhill champion Breezy Johnson said on Wednesday (February 11) she wanted her broken gold medal back.     The U.S. Alpine skier told Reuters that the medal she won in Sunday's race down Cortina d'Ampezzo's Olimpia delle Tofane piste had been replaced after it broke.     "They couldn't fix it so they gave me a new one," she said in an interview. "Although I'm actually curious, because then I think some of the later ones they were able to fix. So now I'm kind of wondering if maybe I can get the old one back fixed."     Johnson was the first U.S. medallist of the Milano Cortina Games and it was also her first appearance on an Olympic podium.     But the medals have proved fragile and become a talking point of the first week of competition with athletes across several sports reporting breakages soon after wearing them.     Johnson said on Sunday she had been jumping in excitement when the medal broke, explaining that it was "not like crazy broken but it's a little broken."     Johnson was fastest on Tuesday's (February 20) combined downhill but missed a medal after teammate Mikaela Shiffrin was only 15th in the slalom run.   Shiffrin.  was “a little rattled by it”, Johnson said adding that athletes can only ask their colleagues to “try their best” and that she knows that’s what her teammate did too.     Johnson will race the super-G on Thursday (February 12), when she could become the first U.S. female skier to win both speed races at the same Games. (Production: Marta Fiorin, Ilze Filks)

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