Sleeping with it under your pillow, maybe. But taking your medal into the shower?

Really?

Brazil's Felipe Kitadai says it was done in humor (he just didn't want to put it down.) But the bronze he won in judo fell as he was trying to protect it from getting wet. The part which holds the string broke and it's now dented.

Now he's asking for a new one.

— Tales Azzoni — Twitter http://twitter.com/tazzoni

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