Athletes winning Gold today will also get special "meteorite" medals

Nice!  I would value those more than the Gold medals.  They will become much sought-after collector items.

From YahooNews:
...One year ago today,  a 10-ton asteroid plunged into Earth's atmosphere and exploded, shattering the cold calm of the morning sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia. To commemorate the event, athletes nabbing an Olympic gold medal today in Sochi will add another, rarer prize to their collection.
A second set of medals has been minted, made from bronze and nickel and plated with gold and silver. A small piece of the meteorite adorns these medals. The gold medal athletes of events in speedskating, cross-country and alpine skiing, ski jumping and skeleton will receive one of these meteorite medals in addition to the standard gold medals.
"We will hand out our medals to all the athletes who will win gold on that day, because both the meteorite strike and the Olympic Games are global events," said Alexei Betekhtin, the culture minister for the Chelyabinsk region, according to USA Today.....