Chinese gymnast Zhu Xueying claims her gold medal is peeling, Tokyo Olympic body responds

The medals awarded during the Tokyo Olympics were made of metal extracted from Japanese citizens' recycled electronic devices.

Chinese gymnast Zhu Xueying, who secured a gold in the recently-concluded Tokyo Olympics, created a major buzz online after she claimed that the metal was peeling off from her medal. The Chinese also shared couple of pictures on social-media website Sina Weibo, where she reportedly wrote: "Let me clarify this… I didn't mean to peel the thing off at first, I just discovered that there was a small mark (like pic one) on my medal." "I thought that it was probably just dirt, so I rubbed it with my finger and found that nothing changed, so then I picked at it and the mark got bigger." On the evening of August 23rd, Olympic champion Zhu Xueying sent a message to Weibo, saying that her Olympic gold medal had lost a layer of skin, and the upper left had mottled visible to the naked eye. pic.twitter.com/gDPBga7rkt