The Nobel Prize doesn't work that way.

[edhopper]

Machado can do what she wants with it. But he would no more be a Nobel recipient than if the Philadelphia Eagles gave the Lombardi Trophy to the New York Jets and the Jets then saying they won the Superbowl.

[Irish_Dem]

1. What? I can't steal a Miss America crown and become a real Miss America?

So unfair.

[Walleye]

2. I think it would generate a lot of online ridicule. At least I hope so.

[hlthe2b]

3. I assume the reference to the "Noble" prize (sic Nobel) is intentional?

But, yes, that is correct. Nobel Committee does not allow/recognize transfer of the prize to someone else. She can do as she wants with the money and even have her name scratched off the medallion to give to TSF, but it is about as meaningless as putting his picture on Monopoly money.

[edhopper]

4. Thanks for the typo heads up.

[dalton99a]

5. To change the name on Machado's certificate, is he going to use white-out or a Sharpie?

[MagickMuffin]

6. That's the thing, he only wants the medal by any means necessary

He doesn’t care he never earned it. Just think of how many other people who give him their medals, purple star made him giddy with adoration that he received a medal.