I mean, what can you expect if you only win bronze. Not like that’s a phenomenal achievement most people never even get close too. Seriously though, France should be embarrassed at this.
Yeah but those so valuable POSTERS they get
Crafted with copper from Minecraft
Shouldn’t have dipped it in the river…
It’s called patina, and it’s super supposed to be there!
/s
What’s with the /s? Of course it’s supposed to be there. Polish it and coat it if you don’t want it, but don’t pretend it’s a mistake to leave it uncoated.
super supposed
franky?
franky
frankly?
Franky, a one piece character
Ahh lemme translate that for you: Suuuuuuuuuppperrrrr supposed
Coin collectors would scream at you to not clean or polish it!
Maybe bronze is a pretty complicated metal to work with. Humanity has only been using it for what, five thousand years, give or take several centuries? We probably just need to gain more experience with it before they’ll come out looking as good as our stone medals.
Did all the competitors understand that they were striving for chocolate medals? Seems a bit like a weird choice to me.
Same thought. Looks like chocolate.
Makes sense why they are all shown trying to bite it, they are craving some calories after the matches.
Prooooooobably won’t be buying anything from them if their medals fall apart this quickly, haha.
Sounds right to me.
This is capitalism. The goal of the Olympics is to make money on advertising, not to give nice expensive rewards to the athletes. The athletes are tools to make money for rich people. TV, advertising, sponsors.
The cheap metal serves its purpose. It looks nice initially for a few days while the winners take pictures. After that it doesn’t matter.
I’m pretty sure they make the athletes pay for the medals too. What a ripoff.
The US Olympians used to have to pay tax on their earnings from winnings until 2016 when Obama changed that by preventing the IRS from collecting taxes on those awards.
Maybe unpopular opinion, but they should still. Why should it be tax exempt? At the end of the day, it’s not enough money to worry about so it doesn’t really matter. They aren’t doing charity or anything though, just work that happens to be a sport and at a very high level. If we tax the rich just a tiny bit more it brings in far more tax money though, so I’d focus on that instead.
Maybe they should tax it if they sell the award. Else the athletes need to pay to put their prize in their prize closet.
thanks obama
The athleyes does not pay their medals they win, wtf??
What!?
I SAID, IM PRETTY SURE THEY MAKE THE ATHETES PAY FOR THE MEDALS TOO! WHAT A RIPOFF!
But after searching for this info on the internet, I’m finding that I could be just entirely wrong about this.
Unless they make the sponsors pay and also like a lump sum of money from the sponsors to the athletes I don’t see that as a good idea.
To be fair, a lot of athletes are also looking for advertising deals from being in the Olympics.
are there pics of medals from other olympics to compare it to?
The absolute shit quality is how you know it’s an authentic Olympic Medal ™
Dang… Probably has that same sorta crumbly over porous texture of costume jewelry that was just plated.
France bragged this was the cheapest Olympics I guess that was a promise fully kept in all areas.
Cheapcore
Do they not coat or treat the medals in some way to prevent this from happening, or is this just some weird fluke with this one medal? For all the egregious ways the IOC wastes money, I feel like the actual medals, themselves, would be one of the last places they’d cut corners.
Could it be that the protection can’t withstand exposure to alcohol? Just a thought. :P
That would be a tremendous oversight.
*After reading the article*
Patina is one thing but the front chipping is nuts.
I keep seeing all the athletes biting them.
You can bite into lead. You can’t bite into gold, silver and bronze. That’s why it used to be a test for fake coins. If the chips are bite marks, the metal’s really low grade.
I believe gold is soft and will show bite marks?
You have it backwards. Gold is extremely malleable and you can easily leave marks in pure gold by biting it.
I have had $10 jewelery from K-Mart that never chipped no matter what abuse I put it through.
