--- description: Olympic boxer Nico Hernandez may not be answering your texts or calls anytime soon title: Olympic Boxer Nico Hernandez Loses Phone in Rio image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd569c8399ae9fad/6988a256428a9e8d81cd3e6b/nico-hernandez.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Sports](/section/sports/) ## Sports Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [olympics](/tag/olympics/) ## olympics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Olympic Boxer Nico Hernandez Wins Bronze, Loses Phone by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 14, 2016 8:51 PM CUT  USA's Nico Miguel Hernandez poses with his medal after winning in the boxing matches in the Rio Olympics at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 14, 2016. USA's Nico Miguel Hernandez poses with his medal after winning in the boxing matches in the Rio Olympics at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 14, 2016.Yuri Cortez—AFP/Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 14, 2016 8:51 PM CUT Olympic boxer Nico Hernandez may not be answering your texts or calls anytime soon. On Sunday, the bronze medal winning boxer [tweeted at T Mobile](https://twitter.com/NicoTheBoxer/status/764909454320074752 "undefined") saying he lost his phone in Rio before receiving his medal. T Mobile wrote back asking Hernandez to send them a direct message about the issue. > [](https://twitter.com/NicoTheBoxer/status/764909454320074752) Hernandez became the first American to win a medal in boxing since the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Friday. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4451754/nico-hernandez-loses-phone-rio/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4451754/nico-hernandez-loses-phone-rio/"},"headline":"Olympic Boxer Nico Hernandez Wins Bronze, Loses Phone","datePublished":"2016-08-14T20:51:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:58:24.028Z","description":"He may not be answering your texts or calls anytime soon","url":"https://time.com/4451754/nico-hernandez-loses-phone-rio/","keywords":["olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd569c8399ae9fad/6988a256428a9e8d81cd3e6b/nico-hernandez.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd569c8399ae9fad/6988a256428a9e8d81cd3e6b/nico-hernandez.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"BOXING-OLY-2016-RIO","caption":"USA's Nico Miguel Hernandez poses with his medal after winning in the boxing matches in the Rio Olympics at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 14, 2016. Hasanboy Dusmatov won Uzbekistan's first gold medal of the Rio Olympics when he b","creditText":"Yuri Cortez—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/olympics/","name":"olympics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4451754/nico-hernandez-loses-phone-rio/","name":"Olympic Boxer Nico Hernandez Wins Bronze, Loses Phone"}}]}] ```