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In what should be filed under: ''most impressive Olympic medal news ever,'' Sochi brass have announced that all gold medals to be handed out on Feb. 15 will be embedded with shards of meteorite.

The move will mark the one-year anniversary of the Chelyabinsk meteor strike, which injured nearly 1,500 people.

"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 Chelyabinsk Region Culture Minister Alexei Betekhtin.