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The national mint of Italy is offering to repair defective medal fixings for athletes, organizers of the Milan Cortina Olympics said Tuesday at a news conference.

Several Olympians, including Team USA gold medalists Breezy Johnson (women’s downhill skiing) and Alysa Liu (team figure skating) and the bronze medal-winning German biathlon team, have had medals detached from their ribbons.

Johnson noticed her medal breaking as she jumped in celebration. “Don’t jump into them,” she said. “I was jumping in excitement, and it broke. It’s not like crazy broken, but a little broken.”

“A limited number of medals have had a few problems,” Olympic organizing committee spokesperson Luca Casassa said in comments translated from Italian.

However, some athletes who had issues with their medals from earlier in the Games, such as Johnson, received replacements instead of getting their original medal fixed.

Johnson told Reuters on Wednesday that there were slight differences in her replacement and she would prefer to have the original one repaired and returned to her.