Why do Olympians bite their medals? | Burning Questions
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2018
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You’re probably used to seeing athletes ‘bite’ their Gold Medals on the podium, but have you ever wondered why they do this?
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Athletes spend 6 days a week, for several years, training for the Olympics. I think they certainly deserve a SOLID GOLD medal! And they don't deserve a 39% tax on any cash winnings from the Olympics.
Andy Saenz in Indonesia. if athlete won a gold medal. he/she get like USD 400.000
That would be very expensive
@@francsinatra4562 400,000 or 400
@@angeliastone-tolcher2386 So ehat? It's a gold medal fir a reason.
They're probably just hungry
Mitch Johnson They probably eat much more than you.
Iiduli Please feed these poor starving olympians so they don't have to resort to eating their medals :(
@@mitchj.2357 Tbf I'm sure the medals taste delicious
Would be cool if they started awarding gold/silver/bronze olive wreaths.
WCPMachines that would be pretty
Oohh creative
I guess they bite their medals to show how hungry they were for Olympic medals.
Aseem Chemjong exactly because they have sacrificed every thing for that one medal through out their sporting life
Or just hungry in general
*I skipped to the end and the gist is that ancient merchants would bite gold coins in order to test that they weren't lead forgeries*
And the joke is that there is a mere 6 grams of gold in the modern olympic medals....
upload the the full 2018 ceremony please,!
UPLOAD THE FULL PREFORMANCE ON RUclips OF THE 2018 OPENING CEREMONIES! IM TIRED OF WAITING!!!!
the is something called a TV
i need to make an edit though
Some of us don't have TV though, or have the time to watch it if we did.
Yes! I didn't watch it!
Sasha Luke me too!
Because these days the media tell them to. It's like tennis champs kissing the trophy at Wimbledon.
Skip all the useless information: they bite them because merchants use to bite coins to tell if it’s real gold
It's a taste of victory . The taste identify by only the winner
sden
Come on! Please upload the full opening ceremony!
It's a tradition to prove the medal is real and not made of chocolate.
it's not very funny. and you literally waited until the end of the video to answer the question...
Sober Grid I think it's funny and worth to watch..
it's to scrap off the led paint duh.
Yeah, I hate it when videos put a question in the title then make you sit through the whole video and answer it at the end! Just answer the question first and, if I like the way you answer it, then I watch the rest of the video.
Well it' pretty common knowledge why they bite the medals
Totally
We all know the slightly odd circumstances that led to Australia winning their first Winter Olympic gold in Salt Lake City in 2002, but what's the strangest Winter Olympic medal (both in terms of circumstance and in terms of performance)?
HE WAS CARRYING A SOCHI 2014 GOLD MEDAL!!!
You would think they would get the right info on why Olympians do it, it was Canadian runner from the 1996 olympics Donovan Bailey who started it at the Olympics.
Why do we light an Olympic Torch?
If you don’t understand Greek History they lit the torch and kept it lit until every single Althlete had completed (or been sent home due to injuries) the games.
A.J studios - Sp they can fire up the Blunts !!!!!!!
To light the way for the dead to Mount Olympic. 😁
It is so unfair to compare medal winners from different sports!
A swimmer can compete, and therefore be able to win, one hundred medals .
Actually not unfair, because, that swimmer could also win gold medal for running...
Thus, there is no rule that doesn't allow you to compete in different sports.
elvin l. Well running and swimming are quite different. swimming has many different events that are very similar, as well as team events, while something like kayaking does not have as many events
elvin l. Well, your option is so fair, and time investing and phisycally 'possible' that it is a very common situation to see in Olympics, right?! The competitive advantages of a top swimmer compensate the differences he/she could face between the modalities in Swimming. While it would be much more difficult to a gymnast, or someone from athletism to do so.
Also, collective sports or tennis, with very long matches, don't allow that possibility of multiple competitions, even if it is not forbidden.
i'm not saying they're the same, what I mean is that, the olympics weren't meant for people to focus on one sport, and win there, (sure you can do that), what they were meant for is to win on all kinds of sport, and the one that wins the most medals during the olympics(in the same year) can be called athleet of that years Olympics, anywho that can't be really done now, since mostly the different sports overlap when they take place.
Nathan Isler yuz
Answer: it’s tradition
Thanks! 😊
Thanks for all the unexpected useless information, for just one answer.
Oh shut it, no need to be so rude! They are just telling us some history!
Wodchly
It wasn’t useless! It was interesting! And might be useful in the future. How? It depends on the occasion!
No more useless than the answer to the original question, so I don't know why you're complaining.
ok next time you guys have a question to something like "whats 1 +1" i will tell 10 hours of how math was created first. After all its not useless information. Then if you want to know what 1 x 1 is, i will again tell you 10 hours of history befor giving you the answer to your question. I mean does that sound pleasent to you?
Well if I worked that hard for it, of course I'm going to put it in my mouth
it just feels good to bite something metallic
This funny piece of celebration was done first by Peter Farkas, a Greco-Roman wrestler from Hungary in the 1992 Barcelona games. It has its charm thanks to thing you explain in 2 sentences at 4.08, so it became popular.
That's the answer you are looking for!
the athletes deserve real gold medals and prize money as well
wait, isn't this guy on SoccerAM?
They bit the medals to see if it was real gold if it made bite marks it was gold if it didnt it was pyrite
They bite it to see if its chocolate
I always thought there was chocolate inside of them.
I`m from Norway, Mabye I`ll give it a shot.
To check if it's real???
Right answer. Congratulations
Teeth marks meant it was real, not fake
This guy is a comedian!!! 😂😂😂
Why 3 on the podium ?
Do they sell it?
I thought it was chocolates, actually like few people have mentioned already pure gold and silver are both soft metals,they can be easily bent ..
Interesting stuff, who knew!
They think its a cookie
Interesting video
This reminds me of the Bubblestand Episode where spongebob would bite the quarters
To see if it’s chocolate
How is it ironic that he has a gold tooth?
And the gold medal goes toooo...
Presentator! For a nice presentation :)
Funny I always thought bitting into gold was an old gold miners tradition and leaving bite marks was a good sign as pure gold is a very soft metal?
To check if it's a real gold. You know gold is a bit softer.
2018 CEREMONY!!!!!!
Shaun white is also planning on getting a gold in the next summer games in skateboarding
“So back to that biting.” STOP.
How is the lane order in a sprint event (100m, 200m, 400m) final determined ?
based on qualifying times. line 1 or 2 is for the slowest runner while line 4 is for the fastest runner
Time for updates
Why can't there only be one winner
I thought it was just to make sure it wasn't chocolate
No chocolate but chocolate is a possession and an honour anyone who eats chocolate is honoured to
In the beginning a photographer asked somebody to do it to get a photo a little more interesting than of the athlete just standing there with the medal. The first time it was a good foto so now we see it over and over again. It's now trite and over-used.
Cool host!👍👍
Gold is a soft metal, if you bite it it will easily dent or bend so this is a 'test' for its gold content. For the record, they're gold plated, so biting it is simply humor.
They bite their medals be cause it taste good
And Usain Bolt?
Seek the Crown that will not fade away.
To sum it up... They bite their medals to make sure it’s real gold with other strong metals.
3:53 if you don't want to watch the whole video
Comes from gold being a soft metal that would show teeth marks.
please upload when charlotte kalla won gold this morning!!!!
It should be chocolate instead of gold plated metal
So sweet
Omg its the every Premier League club in 90 seconds dude
Why is it called curling?
Every premier league fan in 90 seconds.
Lloyd Griffith is back
Wow so all those athletes that wanted a good medal got ripped off
Second place got copper not bronze
The used to bite it to see if it was fake, now they do it just for show, you’re welcome.
In 2008 they had chinese yade
To make sure it’s not chocolate
Really?
But I thought.....a lot of em is chocolate,paper or not.......
Why's freestyle motocross , motocross, supercross not in the Olympics throw us a freakin bone here
He looks like a british version of jack black🤔
What about shaun white? He won snowboard and skateboard in both winter and summer olympics ^^
Skateboarding isn’t in the Olympics yet. The IOC is planning to add the sport to the 2020 Olympic games. He won the x-games, which is a different competition.
Why do Olympians bite their gold medals? To make sure it’s real gold
Why olympic Winter games Only in country have 4 Why don't in tropiss country (indoor)
Actually they bite the gold medal because in 1848 before the gold rush started, James Marshell was building a sawmill for, John Sutter, he found something the size of a pea and was colored yellow. He but it and it was gold. SO LEARN YOUR FACTS RANDOM RUclipsR THAT WAS IN MY RECCOMENDED
Edit: nvm this is the Olympic channel.
My guess was because the photographer/reporter asked them to do so. 👀 One Two Three ... ruuuun😌
Because gold is easy to bend... and pyrites not pr whatever other metles used, so id guess its to comfirm the casing is gold.
Probably becuz its one of those chocolate coins or medals
They bite their medals cause it's obviously a gold colored tim foil over chocolate
I bit my medal to find out if it was real because of the Olympics...yeah I was in the 3rd grade.
Can we actually buy an Olympic medal?
shaun white will be next athelete that have won gold in summer and winter games, we just have wait two years for that 😁😁
To make sure they're not oversized Bitcoins!
Burning Question: Who is the authority on EVERY subject that you keep glancing away from the camera at?
lots of out of place info.
Lloyd.
Of course Norwegians dominate ice games, that's how they grocery shop
Aren’t you from football republic?
Get a less patronizing host
AlmostMyself it's just the accent
Shut up
He's great
Thank you olympics 😒
Because they are hungry
Cause it’s gold
Same reason ppl lick the bottom of their new shoes
MsBre7 ppl do that?
Coco Shenel yes 😂