Olympic swim great Gary Hall Jr. awarded 10 medals to replace those destroyed in Palisades fire

LAUSANNE, Switzerland  — After all his Olympic medals were destroyed in the Los Angeles fires, swimming great Gary Hall Jr. set an unexpected record replacing them at IOC headquarters Monday.
Ten Olympic medals awarded to one athlete on the same day.
Two replica Olympic medals that IOC President Thomas Bach presented to American swimmer Gary Hall Jr. are seen alongside an original medal, that melted during the wildfires in Los Angeles that destroyed Hall’s home earlier this year