Those 'sustainable' 2024 Olympic medals designed by LVMH Chaumet jewellers, were made by the Paris Mint, (which also made the medals for the 1900 Olympic Games) are deteriorating... several winning athletes are complaining that after a couple of weeks, they are blackened and chipping away! What a publicity nightmare for LVMH!
2.4 billion spent on trying to make the seine river "usable" for Olympic competition.. the housing sucked, the food sucked, and the medals suck.. PLUS the seine is still not usable.
@@motormaker you don't seriously believe yourself right? It's literally been 2 weeks! Even if it was made out of paper it would not have deteriorated yet. This is fake news..
Those 'sustainable' 2024 Olympic medals designed by LVMH Chaumet jewellers, were made by the Paris Mint, (which also made the medals for the 1900 Olympic Games) are deteriorating... several winning athletes are complaining that after a couple of weeks, they are blackened and chipping away! What a publicity nightmare for LVMH!
This is one of the reasons you shouldn't make something like a medal from recycled materials. Who knows what is actually in there, or what the actual mix is. It looks like it's oxidised very quickly, but the chipping is particularly concerning. Bronze should dent/bend much easier than it chips.
😂 everyone is so uneducated.. I can tarnish pure copper and bronze, even brass in a couple hours with dirty hands combined with humidity and oxygen.. I’ll bet those Tokyo ones have chromium or some other additives.. so long answer is yes, the metal you speak of I can tarnish in a few hours with right conditions and it’s polished as now.
The cheapness of these entire Olympics is shamefully. Horrible opening, horrible le food, cardboard beds, garbage medals... I'm guessing they had a lot of money to put it together....so what happened to the money?
Just to be clear you all do know that the host nation pays for the games with taxpayer money, or don’t you?, and this games were different because the organisers were not given a blank Cheque (Check) and told to spend,spend,spend, but the amount spent is not of importance, the important thing is to get the games right, and the French 🇫🇷 Organisation was poor to say the least, from start to finish I have never seen such a pile of poo 💩, and I’m sure the IOC will be addressing all the issues and complaints, we will probably never know the details of the issues etc but we might see some changes in four years time in the USA 🇺🇸.
Using scrap metal should not be an issue. What is an issue is the purity and the alloy of metals that were used to cast the awards. It would be interesting to do an assay and find out exactly what they are made of.
why would they mess with bronze? an alloy thats a few thousand years old? tin and copper. no need to mess with it, dirt cheap... thats why its a "bronze medal"... its CHEAP. and for a few thousand years, humans have understood how bronze tarnishes rapidly when in contact with moist sweaty human bodies... up until the modern age of education and knowledge... you dont think roman soldiers polished their weapons and armour constantly when they werent fighting? silver tarnishes. but it has other properties, and far scarcer than copper... or tin... so its valuable. but still, not so valuable as to NOT make the medal from it (though im not sure and couldnt care either way? might be anything..) gold doesnt tarnish, thats why we always placed immense value on it... so we give it to the winners... except we dont. the gold medal is not made from gold...
Good point. Not just any old combination of copper, tin and zinc is suitable for every application. Impurities could be a factor. Human sweat is essentially a salt water spray environment. Human fingerprints are acidic (ir this reason museum curatorsvwear cotton gloves). Add in the potential for galvanic corrosion between tbe ferrous tower bit and the bronze. Zinc corrodes preferentially to steel. Could the degradation be due to one alloying element being corroded out due to galvanic action from an unstable alloy? To deal with a salt water environment and purity issues perhaps they should have salvaged bronze from a ship's propeller. I hope that at the very least the Eiffel Tower bit was embedded in a nonconductive barrier material.
Hell, they would have been better off getting the medals made in China. Now they know how to do a half way decent fake silver and gold coins. Those are nice and stay shiny.
That's not what "sustainable" means in a "green" production environment Basically it means that the materials the product are made from, and the production methodology to make them are "sustainable" (Recycled/repurposed raw material, production facility run on green energy or run at lower power consumption levels, cutting any processes that might produce "hazardous" or extra waste etc. ) They USED to call it "environmentally friendly" until people figured out that that means "does not work as well as and/or last as long as standard production materials /methods" So they gave the same crap a new catchy name. Also, the more strident and extreme Eco nuts would argue no modern production methods are really "environmentally friendly" and to say such is false advertising. (These are the same folks that want to ban all forms of combustion cooking or domestic heating - especially any method that uses wood for fuel) So what you get with "sustainable" is inferior materials, and poor production quality - at a higher expense for a product that doesn't work as well as or last as long as the "old" way of producing the same item. It's another WOKE bullshit buzzword.
“Sustainable” stuff is expensive, awful quality, and is therefore stupid. Why? Because every “sustainable” thing needs to be replaced over and over again because it sucks so bad.
So we should not send our best athletes in their chosen field to compete against other chosen athletes from their respective countries around the world. That is literally what the Olympiad/ Olympics were designed for.
On bronze it is called patina and is considered to be chic on antiquitues. (Fakers of Greek bronze antiquities have tricks to age bronze wuickly.) In old coins to polish off the patina is to devalue it. Some silver coins (such as a couple early 60s quarters in the family) have remained silver colored but not mirror bright.
Bronze needs to be specially treated to prevent oxidation. The iron piece, as well. The bronze metals, and the iron pieces, obviously haven't been treated, which is why they are degrading. I do not know how this was overlooked, as with all previous Olympics, ensuring that the metals will endure has been one of things that the host country has always taken pride in.
Most of my life I have fixed broken things including car parts, bicycles, radios, household appliances etc. They have up until the early days of the new century been repairable. Then the world became a throw away society. Don’t fix it , scrap it! My grandfather a early machine engineer and my father a marine radio repair technician and my father in law a auto body shop owner would have been shocked by the waste we’ve come to tolerate in this throw away world. Madness.
They want to throw the title sustainable on it but in fact they cost a ton to make! The podium cost of the gold medal just for materials was 950$, the most in modern Olympics. Include the price for the foundry to cast it and add the Eifel tower pieces and they spent millions on less than 1,000 medals. Sounds so sustainable and environmentally friendly to me.
Bronze and iron produce a galvanic current. Mixed with a bit of salt from sweat, you essentially end up with a battery. The medals are corroding and remade medals will do the same unless an insulator is introduced between the bronze and iron components.
Just to point out that bronze metal oxidises, can take a couple of weeks depending on condition if not plated with another metal, sorry folks this is basic chemistry.
Those 'sustainable' 2024 Olympic medals designed by LVMH Chaumet jewellers, were made by the Paris Mint, (which also made the medals for the 1900 Olympic Games) are deteriorating... several winning athletes are complaining that after a couple of weeks, they are blackened and chipping away! What a publicity nightmare for LVMH!
Bronze does not hold up to being touched by bare skin. Oils and sweat will turn a bright finish to a dull brown one fairly quickly. A clear coat can reduce the instances of oxidation, but only as long as the coating remains intact. The copper in the alloy will tarnish pretty easily.
Silver turns black due to exposure (if I remember correctly) sulfur. Sulfur oxide air pollution is responsible for much degradation. Clear coating can help but can wear away through contact. I once helped with a yearly cleaning of a church. One major warning: DON'T TRY TO CLEAN OR PLLISH THE LACQUERED STATUTES IN THE SIDE CHAPEL! If the gold starts to develop a patina ... either it isn't gold or was merely plated. Gold plating is pretty gnarly because cyanide compounds are often used.
Okay so a few medals are not as durable as the recipient’s would have liked, and perhaps there is a problem with the manufacturing process, but there are many reasons why that might have happened, but I am sure that it wasn’t because of money saving, and to be blunt it could also be down to how the medal was treated by its owner, oil and water from the body will affect it, letting multiple people have a wear, and they might not be as careful with it, especially at a party where the inhibitions are lowered and things get spilled and the medal bashed around, but whatever the truth of the situation why bring it to light on TikTok and rubbishing the IOC and the French 🇫🇷 Olympic Committee, I don’t think it is the way to get a new medal, going to the IOC or French Olympic Organising Committee should have been first, and then a TikTok video if the situation isn’t resolved. I am one of the first people to say that these games were the worst I have ever seen, throughout the whole games, from the opening ceremony, through the competition, and to the closing ceremony, it has been a litany of failures, and poor organisation, but this TikTok video was not the best way to address the dissatisfaction and disappointment about the medals, or anything tbh, the IOC don’t just say “thanks for having us, see you in four years” there would be a huge post games debrief between the IOC and host nation to see where,what,when and why things went wrong, and you can bet they won’t put a TikTok video together. I am quite happy to give this episode a thumbs up 👍, but thumbs down 👎 for the TikTok video, a bit too quick to draw blame and criticism on the IOC and French 🇫🇷 Olympic Committee. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸🇺🇦
well, yeah. its bronze. thats the whole point of awarding bronze. its cheap. worthless. in this modern age of diversity and inclusion they may as well just forget about any competition... just give them all gold... anything else is discrimination... lol, we really are a hypocritical civilisation...
Huh!! I missed the opening ceremony but heard it was a disaster and angered a lot of people. Olympic medals deteriorating already?? I heard another downside to this Olympics was the athletes were housed in dormitories that had no adequate A/C or ventilation and a good number were moving out to hotels. Another blackeye for Paris.
"The International Olympic Committee requires that gold medals must be made of at least 92.5% silver, but also have about six grams of gold, so there is some. The silver medal is mostly silver and some iron while the bronze medal is mostly made of copper and with some zinc and iron." For those curious.
I wonder did they try save too much by leaving unwanted impurities in the metals instead of refining to a high degree of purity before casting the final medals?
Yeah... scrap metal is still the same metal - completely, totally, 100% indistinguishable from what you get straight out of the mine. It's a question of the processing, and the content of the alloys used. The medals are deteriorating because they cheaped out on the mixture, not because of the source(s) of the component metals.
Oh the irony is hardly sustainable let alone containable! Instead of one quality medal now a second needs to be produced and shipped. Two, a lousy one and hopefully a quality one, instead of one quality in the first place.
So they put a piece of iron into a medal made of a copper and brass alloy? Do they not understand that when iron and copper come into contact it begins to oxidize almost immediately?
To be honest, I was wondering if some sort of galvanic corrosion would start happening with the bronze medals with the iron inserts. I'm floored that the gold medals aren't up to snuff either.
Bronze and steel are susceptible to galvanic corrosion, especially when salts or sweat are introduced. Maybe putting in a piece of the Tower is problematic. One wonders if they’re seeing similar breakdowns in silver and gold medals. They supposedly do not corrode when they come in contact with steel.
Looks like some people are laughing their way to the bank at the expense of the athletes, fans, staff and the only 'sustainable' thing is their bank accounts with how much they saved.
Isn’t it crazy that everything keeps getting more and more expensive it the end result is lower and lower quality???? As a consumer, I don’t really want to buy anything anymore. I make too little for such garbage made anymore.
I’m sorry but if I’m winning a medal at the OLYMPICS, the medal should not be recycled. That’s cheap af. These are OLYMPIANS. They deserve the highest honors. Not recycled material.
Sounds like the bronze alloy recipe is off because bronze is just made up of copper, tin and zinc. Sometimes also phosphorus, arsenic or silicon is added for different strength, ductility or machinability.
What were they thinking...don't believe they deserve the honor of being asked that question. The only sustainability they achieved is never again in Paris.
If Olympic organizers are so concerned with the environment, they should cancel the Olympics as the expenditure of resources required to put on a single Olympics is insane.
I think future host cities are going to look at this Olympics and hold it in high regard as everything that you DON”T want to do when hosting the Olympics.
You can’t see damage from a couple seconds of video. If you consider that bronze and silver do tarnish over time, could that be what is happening. If someone is wearing their medal, their perspiration is getting on it accelerating the way that it tarnished. Gold doesn’t tarnish silver and bronze do, to different extents. I have only heard complaints about the bronze medals. The problem is most likely the copper used to make the bronze. It makes me wonder if the bronze is just plated.
Silver and bronze metal left exposed to air will tarnish, oxygen is everywhere. Very common. Plate the metals with something durable and air tight. Not expensive. None DEI and woke people know this, nothing new.
Oh just stop it!!! Everyone knows that bronze and silver will tarnish when exposed to air, stinky hand oils and sweaty skin. These medals should be displayed in an air tight case. Not handled by 50 people at a party.
everyone? apparently not! remember, skaters arent renowned for their intellectual abilities... especially "olympic level athlete" ones... the tatts say enough...
What an embarrassment, one of many. Paris set the bar really low for the next Olympics to be considered great SMFH
Can't even imagine what Los Angeles will come up with, considering IOC makes the rules
It's in America the next one yup that's going to be shlt one
Hold my beer. LA will show you how low the bar can really go.
Those 'sustainable' 2024 Olympic medals designed by LVMH Chaumet jewellers, were made by the Paris Mint, (which also made the medals for the 1900 Olympic Games) are deteriorating... several winning athletes are complaining that after a couple of weeks, they are blackened and chipping away! What a publicity nightmare for LVMH!
next olympics? who in there right mind is considering going. why would you? its a joke. turn off
Embarrassing, the entire program was trash , just like those medals
What program?? You mean the games??
Bronze tarnishes with sweat bc it is not a precious metal. This is a non story & just an example of why gold & silver holds its value better.
Polish and apply clear coat and solved
The entire IOC is trash!
2.4 billion spent on trying to make the seine river "usable" for Olympic competition.. the housing sucked, the food sucked, and the medals suck.. PLUS the seine is still not usable.
Forgot the ceremonies all were just insulting and blasphemous for the whole world
It's France,it sucks in french.
@@Trebor74 The they France treated Haitians after they refused to be their slave also sucks.
I wonder how much actually went to the task, and not in someone's pocket.
It's barely been a week since the Olympics finished. It shouldn't tarnish that fast.
Depending on percentages of each an alloy of copper, zinc, and tin could be naval brass or gun metal.
@@motormaker you don't seriously believe yourself right? It's literally been 2 weeks! Even if it was made out of paper it would not have deteriorated yet. This is fake news..
Those 'sustainable' 2024 Olympic medals designed by LVMH Chaumet jewellers, were made by the Paris Mint, (which also made the medals for the 1900 Olympic Games) are deteriorating... several winning athletes are complaining that after a couple of weeks, they are blackened and chipping away! What a publicity nightmare for LVMH!
This is one of the reasons you shouldn't make something like a medal from recycled materials.
Who knows what is actually in there, or what the actual mix is.
It looks like it's oxidised very quickly, but the chipping is particularly concerning. Bronze should dent/bend much easier than it chips.
😂 everyone is so uneducated.. I can tarnish pure copper and bronze, even brass in a couple hours with dirty hands combined with humidity and oxygen.. I’ll bet those Tokyo ones have chromium or some other additives.. so long answer is yes, the metal you speak of I can tarnish in a few hours with right conditions and it’s polished as now.
THE WORST OLIMPICS IN HISTORY OF HUMANITY!
Except the 1972 Olympics where the 11 Israeli Olympic team members were kidnapped by the Palestinians and ended up dead?
@@wolfhunter6711 that was against Israel ONLY.
The last olypics was a public display of Satan and perversion, a lot wider and dangerous.
I think you will find the people who died at the 1972 Olympics would disagree with you
2028... Los Angeles. We'll show the rest of the world how to really screw up the Olympics!
Atlanta were the worst games ever
The cheapness of these entire Olympics is shamefully. Horrible opening, horrible le food, cardboard beds, garbage medals... I'm guessing they had a lot of money to put it together....so what happened to the money?
you forgot to mention swimming in toilet water
Just wait till we hear how much the bonuses for the organizing committee are.
Just to be clear you all do know that the host nation pays for the games with taxpayer money, or don’t you?, and this games were different because the organisers were not given a blank Cheque (Check) and told to spend,spend,spend, but the amount spent is not of importance, the important thing is to get the games right, and the French 🇫🇷 Organisation was poor to say the least, from start to finish I have never seen such a pile of poo 💩, and I’m sure the IOC will be addressing all the issues and complaints, we will probably never know the details of the issues etc but we might see some changes in four years time in the USA 🇺🇸.
Great opening ceremony if you ain't a cry baby Gody
Money fest for the organizers . They don't even need to pay the Athletes.
everything about Paris was cheap. the lodging, the food, even the medals.
Using scrap metal should not be an issue. What is an issue is the purity and the alloy of metals that were used to cast the awards. It would be interesting to do an assay and find out exactly what they are made of.
why would they mess with bronze? an alloy thats a few thousand years old? tin and copper. no need to mess with it, dirt cheap... thats why its a "bronze medal"... its CHEAP.
and for a few thousand years, humans have understood how bronze tarnishes rapidly when in contact with moist sweaty human bodies... up until the modern age of education and knowledge...
you dont think roman soldiers polished their weapons and armour constantly when they werent fighting?
silver tarnishes. but it has other properties, and far scarcer than copper... or tin... so its valuable. but still, not so valuable as to NOT make the medal from it (though im not sure and couldnt care either way? might be anything..)
gold doesnt tarnish, thats why we always placed immense value on it... so we give it to the winners...
except we dont. the gold medal is not made from gold...
Good point. Not just any old combination of copper, tin and zinc is suitable for every application. Impurities could be a factor. Human sweat is essentially a salt water spray environment. Human fingerprints are acidic (ir this reason museum curatorsvwear cotton gloves). Add in the potential for galvanic corrosion between tbe ferrous tower bit and the bronze. Zinc corrodes preferentially to steel. Could the degradation be due to one alloying element being corroded out due to galvanic action from an unstable alloy?
To deal with a salt water environment and purity issues perhaps they should have salvaged bronze from a ship's propeller. I hope that at the very least the Eiffel Tower bit was embedded in a nonconductive barrier material.
@@christophercripps7639 There you have it! The IOC in full collusion with the French used sweatshop labor and materials to cast the metals.
Hell, they would have been better off getting the medals made in China. Now they know how to do a half way decent fake silver and gold coins. Those are nice and stay shiny.
Those are the ugliest Olimpics medals ever🤨
Not even close. In 1992 Barcelona didn't even try.
@@myitbos1335 😆😆👍
The irony is that something that is sustainable is supposed to last - you know, the exact opposite of deteriorating.
That's not what "sustainable" means in a "green" production environment
Basically it means that the materials the product are made from, and the production methodology to make them are "sustainable"
(Recycled/repurposed raw material, production facility run on green energy or run at lower power consumption levels, cutting any processes that might produce "hazardous" or extra waste etc. )
They USED to call it "environmentally friendly" until people figured out that that means "does not work as well as and/or last as long as standard production materials /methods"
So they gave the same crap a new catchy name. Also, the more strident and extreme Eco nuts would argue no modern production methods are really "environmentally friendly" and to say such is false advertising. (These are the same folks that want to ban all forms of combustion cooking or domestic heating - especially any method that uses wood for fuel)
So what you get with "sustainable" is inferior materials, and poor production quality - at a higher expense for a product that doesn't work as well as or last as long as the "old" way of producing the same item.
It's another WOKE bullshit buzzword.
Hey is bad quality period €%£#^
So the medals are made of genuine crapology. Just another example of this absolute disaster olympics.
Yeesss. Yessss Yesss Yesssss.Yesss Yessss
“Sustainable” stuff is expensive, awful quality, and is therefore stupid. Why? Because every “sustainable” thing needs to be replaced over and over again because it sucks so bad.
The woke Olympics has embarrassed itself yet AGAIN.. no surprise
Bronze does that. It develops a patina. They should have been polished then coated with a clear finish.
they also shouldnt be worn but put in a frame on the wall...
There's really no point in continuing the Olympic games. Too costly, and allowing professionals to compete degrades the integrity of the games.
So we should not send our best athletes in their chosen field to compete against other chosen athletes from their respective countries around the world. That is literally what the Olympiad/ Olympics were designed for.
@@graves74 only. 2 per event per country
@@alainbellemare2168 that doesn’t make any sense. Certain events require more athletes, swimming, gymnastics, running, etc.
Bronze and silver tarnish quite readily. It's not a surprise. They apparently didn't clear coat them.
On bronze it is called patina and is considered to be chic on antiquitues. (Fakers of Greek bronze antiquities have tricks to age bronze wuickly.) In old coins to polish off the patina is to devalue it. Some silver coins (such as a couple early 60s quarters in the family) have remained silver colored but not mirror bright.
What I've learned from these olympics is that France probably sucks!
That would mean they had at least one positive outcome…
Bronze needs to be specially treated to prevent oxidation. The iron piece, as well. The bronze metals, and the iron pieces, obviously haven't been treated, which is why they are degrading. I do not know how this was overlooked, as with all previous Olympics, ensuring that the metals will endure has been one of things that the host country has always taken pride in.
The CHEAP VILE OLYMPICS.....they even made athletes swim in a " crud " river and now they're SICK
I just read that they all just. Well you know.
Most of my life I have fixed broken things including car parts, bicycles, radios, household appliances etc. They have up until the early days of the new century been repairable. Then the world became a throw away society. Don’t fix it , scrap it! My grandfather a early machine engineer and my father a marine radio repair technician and my father in law a auto body shop owner would have been shocked by the waste we’ve come to tolerate in this throw away world. Madness.
Not just inanimate objects. I have my dog because someone threw a perfectly good hound out on the side of the road!
Bronze tarnishes. That’s chemistry.
How much did they spend on the FREAK SHOW ?!! 😂😂😂
They want to throw the title sustainable on it but in fact they cost a ton to make! The podium cost of the gold medal just for materials was 950$, the most in modern Olympics. Include the price for the foundry to cast it and add the Eifel tower pieces and they spent millions on less than 1,000 medals. Sounds so sustainable and environmentally friendly to me.
Paris Olympics was just a huge disaster - start to finish
Bronze and iron produce a galvanic current. Mixed with a bit of salt from sweat, you essentially end up with a battery. The medals are corroding and remade medals will do the same unless an insulator is introduced between the bronze and iron components.
They called it sustainability, I called it cheapness 😂😂😂v😂
Just to point out that bronze metal oxidises, can take a couple of weeks depending on condition if not plated with another metal, sorry folks this is basic chemistry.
Those 'sustainable' 2024 Olympic medals designed by LVMH Chaumet jewellers, were made by the Paris Mint, (which also made the medals for the 1900 Olympic Games) are deteriorating... several winning athletes are complaining that after a couple of weeks, they are blackened and chipping away! What a publicity nightmare for LVMH!
Bronze does not hold up to being touched by bare skin. Oils and sweat will turn a bright finish to a dull brown one fairly quickly. A clear coat can reduce the instances of oxidation, but only as long as the coating remains intact. The copper in the alloy will tarnish pretty easily.
Silver turns black due to exposure (if I remember correctly) sulfur. Sulfur oxide air pollution is responsible for much degradation.
Clear coating can help but can wear away through contact. I once helped with a yearly cleaning of a church. One major warning: DON'T TRY TO CLEAN OR PLLISH THE LACQUERED STATUTES IN THE SIDE CHAPEL!
If the gold starts to develop a patina ... either it isn't gold or was merely plated. Gold plating is pretty gnarly because cyanide compounds are often used.
The worst Olympics of all time
Yes on top of that Judges were always in favour of any French competitor to win an Olympic gold medal of all cost bunch of cheaters too
Yeah, comparison of bronze medals my foot. Viktor Axelsen won GOLD medal at Tokyo Olympics, not bronze.
Okay so a few medals are not as durable as the recipient’s would have liked, and perhaps there is a problem with the manufacturing process, but there are many reasons why that might have happened, but I am sure that it wasn’t because of money saving, and to be blunt it could also be down to how the medal was treated by its owner, oil and water from the body will affect it, letting multiple people have a wear, and they might not be as careful with it, especially at a party where the inhibitions are lowered and things get spilled and the medal bashed around, but whatever the truth of the situation why bring it to light on TikTok and rubbishing the IOC and the French 🇫🇷 Olympic Committee, I don’t think it is the way to get a new medal, going to the IOC or French Olympic Organising Committee should have been first, and then a TikTok video if the situation isn’t resolved.
I am one of the first people to say that these games were the worst I have ever seen, throughout the whole games, from the opening ceremony, through the competition, and to the closing ceremony, it has been a litany of failures, and poor organisation, but this TikTok video was not the best way to address the dissatisfaction and disappointment about the medals, or anything tbh, the IOC don’t just say “thanks for having us, see you in four years” there would be a huge post games debrief between the IOC and host nation to see where,what,when and why things went wrong, and you can bet they won’t put a TikTok video together.
I am quite happy to give this episode a thumbs up 👍, but thumbs down 👎 for the TikTok video, a bit too quick to draw blame and criticism on the IOC and French 🇫🇷 Olympic Committee. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸🇺🇦
Pure bronze will corrode and turn green if kept in contact with skin.
Bronze is an alloy.. no such thing as pure bronze...
All they had to do to keep the metal in original condition is a coating of lacquer.
In any harsh or coastal climate lacquer breaks down quickly and becomes a restoration nightmare.
Had a £1000 bronze watch that did exactly the same,,,its just unlaquered bronze ! If it was lacquered it would look brand new forever.
The makers basically said, “this is what we think about 3rd place” 😂
well, yeah. its bronze. thats the whole point of awarding bronze. its cheap. worthless.
in this modern age of diversity and inclusion they may as well just forget about any competition... just give them all gold... anything else is discrimination...
lol, we really are a hypocritical civilisation...
Only thing they can do is spray it with clear lacquer for looks. Or ??????
As if the metal from olympic medals would make an impact ...
People are getting dumber by the day.
Adding scrap medal to the awards shows exactly how they value the efforts each of the athletes put into the games.
Huh!! I missed the opening ceremony but heard it was a disaster and angered a lot of people. Olympic medals deteriorating already?? I heard another downside to this Olympics was the athletes were housed in dormitories that had no adequate A/C or ventilation and a good number were moving out to hotels. Another blackeye for Paris.
Adequate implies there was some A/C. There was NONE in the living quarters.
How insulting to these athletes
Decay is not sustaining. Just saying
"The International Olympic Committee requires that gold medals must be made of at least 92.5% silver, but also have about six grams of gold, so there is some. The silver medal is mostly silver and some iron while the bronze medal is mostly made of copper and with some zinc and iron."
For those curious.
I wonder did they try save too much by leaving unwanted impurities in the metals instead of refining to a high degree of purity before casting the final medals?
Yeah... scrap metal is still the same metal - completely, totally, 100% indistinguishable from what you get straight out of the mine. It's a question of the processing, and the content of the alloys used. The medals are deteriorating because they cheaped out on the mixture, not because of the source(s) of the component metals.
I understand where they are coming from......however
Oh the irony is hardly sustainable let alone containable! Instead of one quality medal now a second needs to be produced and shipped. Two, a lousy one and hopefully a quality one, instead of one quality in the first place.
The entire Paris Olympics was a total disgrace on all levels
from the opening ceramony we were asking what the HE__ leave it to the french and the idiotic olympic committee
Not asking....saying that's where they are going
So they put a piece of iron into a medal made of a copper and brass alloy? Do they not understand that when iron and copper come into contact it begins to oxidize almost immediately?
Cardboard beds were a good indication on how thing were going 😂
That's what sustainable means. Sustainable profits over sustainable products. Quantity over quality.
To be honest, I was wondering if some sort of galvanic corrosion would start happening with the bronze medals with the iron inserts. I'm floored that the gold medals aren't up to snuff either.
yet they have assigned 76 million to repair the bloody ifeltower, so now scap is the new gold
Answer: they were not thinking, they are virtue signaling. And maybe making a little extra money by not spending as much for a quality product.
Quality was not found found anywhere in this Olympics from start to finish.
What have they done with the cardboard beds? 😂
Go back to awarding a crown of leaves and a red wool ribbon. They should have used Rustoleum paints on the medals instead of water colour paints.
Just another reason I did not watch a single second of the Paris Olympics.
Lot of the athletes didn't stay at the village. Horrible accommodations
They should be PURE 99.999% Bronze, Silver, and Gold. They are NOT BEING WASTED!
Bronze and steel are susceptible to galvanic corrosion, especially when salts or sweat are introduced. Maybe putting in a piece of the Tower is problematic. One wonders if they’re seeing similar breakdowns in silver and gold medals. They supposedly do not corrode when they come in contact with steel.
When he said it was chipping that was a little weird. Usually these things are displayed not worn. But chipping??? Then there is a problem.
Looks like some people are laughing their way to the bank at the expense of the athletes, fans, staff and the only 'sustainable' thing is their bank accounts with how much they saved.
Isn’t it crazy that everything keeps getting more and more expensive it the end result is lower and lower quality????
As a consumer, I don’t really want to buy anything anymore. I make too little for such garbage made anymore.
I’m sorry but if I’m winning a medal at the OLYMPICS, the medal should not be recycled. That’s cheap af. These are OLYMPIANS. They deserve the highest honors. Not recycled material.
paris cheaped out hardocre.
What were they thinking? They were thinking: let’s go with the lowest “sustainable” bidder!
Of Course The Japan are in Top Condition but Unlike The Paris Sets???
They should rename Paris Olympics to the Budget Olympics
Sounds like the bronze alloy recipe is off because bronze is just made up of copper, tin and zinc. Sometimes also phosphorus, arsenic or silicon is added for different strength, ductility or machinability.
What were they thinking...don't believe they deserve the honor of being asked that question. The only sustainability they achieved is never again in Paris.
Made in France: that’s the problem.
Just when you think Paris Olympics couldn’t get any worse, it does
Good call them out for making shit medals.
To me sustainability is products that last!
Not cheap, needs to replace over many times to throw in clean fill.
How does a medal deteriorate? Theyre supposed to be metal!
Quite fitting really.
If Olympic organizers are so concerned with the environment, they should cancel the Olympics as the expenditure of resources required to put on a single Olympics is insane.
There are some things to not be cheap on. An Olympic medal is one of them.
I've never seen goods that had a "Made in France" label on it , now I know why.
And why no one buys a French car.
Gold sliver and copper should be fully made with their respective medals.
I think future host cities are going to look at this Olympics and hold it in high regard as everything that you DON”T want to do when hosting the Olympics.
It's a clown show this year in the Olympics
Its the green theme. Biodegradable medals. Well done Paris! What happened to the concept that Olympic Medals are forever?
Gold,silver, bronze, what a joke the olympics are
Maybe it's just me, but I guess there are really athletes who don't treasure their medals, like the first guy, lending it to his friends? 🥴😅
That was the worst olympics in history.
You can’t see damage from a couple seconds of video. If you consider that bronze and silver do tarnish over time, could that be what is happening. If someone is wearing their medal, their perspiration is getting on it accelerating the way that it tarnished. Gold doesn’t tarnish silver and bronze do, to different extents. I have only heard complaints about the bronze medals. The problem is most likely the copper used to make the bronze. It makes me wonder if the bronze is just plated.
Silver and bronze metal left exposed to air will tarnish, oxygen is everywhere. Very common. Plate the metals with something durable and air tight. Not expensive. None DEI and woke people know this, nothing new.
The gold medal isn’t gold? The bronze medal isn’t bronze? And the silver medal isn’t silver? Sue them for false advertising.
Gold silver and bronze indeed are a sustainable resource.
This has to be the worst Olympics ever!
Thanks France for you part in this! 😰
The people who died at the 1973 Olympics would disagree with you
Some metals tarnish easily, but they could have been coated to prevent this.
Then someone would complain about the emissions during the coating process.
Made from Sustainable materials means they are going to fall apart and degrade as fast as they were made.
France should not be in charge of anything.
Please IOC. No more Olympic Games for France.
France should never be considered as an Olympic site after this debacle
France 🇫🇷 is a failure as a country to organize an Olympic event period
That is crazy.
The French can't do anything right
Oh just stop it!!! Everyone knows that bronze and silver will tarnish when exposed to air, stinky hand oils and sweaty skin. These medals should be displayed in an air tight case. Not handled by 50 people at a party.
everyone? apparently not!
remember, skaters arent renowned for their intellectual abilities... especially "olympic level athlete" ones...
the tatts say enough...
The Tokyo medals are made from recycled materials, but are much prettier and shinier than the Paris medals.