US EditionOlympic champion Hall Jr. receives replicas of 10 medals lost in LA fires
- On May 5, 2025, at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, Olympic swimming star Gary Hall Jr. Was presented with replacement copies of the 10 medals he had originally won, which were lost in the Los Angeles wildfires.
- The medals were lost when wildfires destroyed Hall’s Pacific Palisades home in Los Angeles in January, killing at least 29 people and displacing tens of thousands.
- The replacement ceremony, led by IOC President Thomas Bach, was unique and emotional, with Hall thanking the Olympic community for their support.
- Hall expressed that replacing 10 Olympic medals was unprecedented, while Bach described Hall’s experience as heartbreaking and said it deeply moved them.
- The event highlighted resilience and solidarity amid loss as Los Angeles prepares to host the 2028 Summer Olympics.
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U.S. Olympic swim great Gary Hall Jr awarded 10 medals to replace those destroyed in L.A. fires
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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