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<\/a><\/div>\nOlympic medalists traditionally cradle flower bouquets as they hold up gold, silver or bronze medals from a tiered platform. But not this year in Brazil.<\/p>\n
Instead, the world\u2019s best gymnasts, runners, ping-pongers and trampolinists are clutching small 3-D sculptures of Rio’s Olympics logo.<\/p>\n
SEE ALSO: Olympic athletes are using cupping to heal their muscles, but should you?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The switch from ephemeral flowers to long-lasting trinkets is a small part of the Olympic organizing committee\u2019s bigger mission to limit the environmental damage from the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, a Rio 2016 spokesperson told Mashable<\/em>. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n More about Olympics<\/a>, Rio Olympics<\/a>, Michael Phelps<\/a>, Simone Biles<\/a>, and Sustainability<\/a> Olympic medalists traditionally cradle flower bouquets as they hold up gold, silver or bronze medals from a tiered platform. But not this year in Brazil. Instead, the world\u2019s best gymnasts, runners, ping-pongers and trampolinists are clutching small 3-D sculptures of … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4010,1043,3980,4009,4011],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-michael-phelps","tag-olympics","tag-rio-olympics","tag-simone-biles","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"