Sydney Marathon's finisher medal features Munich stadium instead of local landmark

In the days before 35,000 runners from across the world converge on Sydney's Opera House, the marathon's finisher medal has quietly become a small parable about the gap between intention and execution. Organisers meant to honour the city's landmarks — the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House, the local Allianz Stadium — but etched instead a German football ground some 17,000 kilometres away onto the keepsake that runners will carry home. Rather than provoking outrage, the mistake invited laughter, and in that laughter something worth noting: that the meaning of a medal lives less in its engraving t