No there havent. One dude was handling a piece that had already peeled up so that he could shoot a picture of the shoddy work. It was the area that many people had showed the paint peeling. That's it.
Davey Hearn says he was simply touching the new paint at the site out of curiosity and did not remove or alter it.
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A former US Olympian arrested for allegedly vandalising the Reflecting Pool in Washington DC is denying he did anything wrong.
David "Davey" Hearn, 67, was detained by the pool's edge on Friday as he was finishing a long bike ride.
Hearn told BBC News that he had removed his cycling glove to simply touch a long strip of rubbery material which appeared to have "delaminated" from the bottom of the pool, when he was stopped by US Park Police and National Guard troops.
The champion canoeist is now facing a misdemeanour charge of destruction of government property.