Why do athletes bite their medals?

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  • Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024

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  • @BrianGivensYtube
    @BrianGivensYtube 3 месяца назад +6238

    I was waiting for “Silver medals are made of bronze and silver plated”

    • @ChocBlock
      @ChocBlock 3 месяца назад +281

      What would bronze be made of?!

    • @K4k1__
      @K4k1__ 3 месяца назад +798

      ​@@ChocBlock cardboard

    • @LUNE.44
      @LUNE.44 3 месяца назад +358

      @@ChocBlockgold 😳😳😳

    • @superidol238
      @superidol238 3 месяца назад +163

      @@ChocBlock copper

    • @NecronHandlee
      @NecronHandlee 3 месяца назад +59

      Iron

  • @DhruveelDave
    @DhruveelDave 4 месяца назад +25486

    "Tastes like victory..."

    • @TempoChannel5
      @TempoChannel5 4 месяца назад +308

      tastes like a lie😔🔫

    • @Runnmill
      @Runnmill 4 месяца назад +159

      Tastes like metal

    • @ishmowo
      @ishmowo 4 месяца назад +133

      ​@@TempoChannel5Tastes like premature majorly-silver electrum in my mouth! 😁

    • @ploopy2436
      @ploopy2436 4 месяца назад +31

      chocolate medal thingy

    • @TempoChannel5
      @TempoChannel5 4 месяца назад +22

      @@windwardwave when did I say I have depression

  • @jhayar15
    @jhayar15 4 месяца назад +37950

    So technically, nobody won gold medals at the Olympics since 1912.

    • @YellowFella459
      @YellowFella459 4 месяца назад +1719

      No they won 0000.1 grams of gold and 99 grams of silver
      Edit: people are taking my comment way more seriously than they should😭

    • @kuppih4933
      @kuppih4933 4 месяца назад

      ​@@YellowFella459that's not how decimals work. Also either you didn't watch the end of the short or you're dumb. It's six grams of gold

    • @cr_chain
      @cr_chain 4 месяца назад

      ​@@YellowFella4590000.1 = 0.1

    • @Youmu_Konpaku_
      @Youmu_Konpaku_ 4 месяца назад +58

      Yep

    • @dillonjordan4662
      @dillonjordan4662 4 месяца назад +33

      Well.

  • @t.wcharles2171
    @t.wcharles2171 4 месяца назад +2518

    Fun fact: During the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, winners received silver medals, with 2nd place receiving copper medals.

    • @t.wcharles2171
      @t.wcharles2171 4 месяца назад +254

      This system would persist until 1906 when the tri-metallic system was introduced.

    • @GazB85
      @GazB85 3 месяца назад +90

      So what did 3rd win?

    • @TheTobyOMG
      @TheTobyOMG 3 месяца назад +431

      ​@@GazB85 Sorrow

    • @GazB85
      @GazB85 3 месяца назад +44

      @@TheTobyOMG 😂

    • @RescueOfAnimals
      @RescueOfAnimals 3 месяца назад +48

      ​@@GazB85wood

  • @aegisofhonor
    @aegisofhonor 4 месяца назад +17478

    the irony of it is, if it's a cost reason, hosting the Olympics has gotten so insanely expensive that even if the host country spend the money to make every gold medal out of pure gold, it would still only account for about 2% of the total cost of the Olympic Games.

    • @meowmeowandmeowmeow
      @meowmeowandmeowmeow 4 месяца назад +1448

      2% sounds like a lot

    • @sumanamukherjee2423
      @sumanamukherjee2423 4 месяца назад +476

      Probably because there's just 244000 ton of gold . That's it

    • @meowmeowandmeowmeow
      @meowmeowandmeowmeow 4 месяца назад +957

      @@sumanamukherjee2423 I did the math an hour ago and if 340 gold medals are awarded at 2% the cost of hosting the games then thats enough money to make them around 30kg each pure gold

    • @rayres1074
      @rayres1074 4 месяца назад +435

      "only" 2% of an event that costs well over one billion USD

    • @Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1024
      @Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1024 4 месяца назад +119

      More like 0.02%

  • @JadedKake
    @JadedKake 4 месяца назад +2684

    "Wait... It's all silver?"
    "Always has been"

    • @Besieiro
      @Besieiro 3 месяца назад

      lol

    • @qkihw1828
      @qkihw1828 3 месяца назад +12

      Haven't heard that meme in a long time

    • @dylanwu9635
      @dylanwu9635 3 месяца назад +22

      well, at least since 1912

    • @bobli840
      @bobli840 3 месяца назад +4

      Bronze medalists: HAHA I'm the special one now!

    • @jonahigbokwe394
      @jonahigbokwe394 3 месяца назад +4

      95% silver and 5% gold for gold
      95% bronze and 5% silver for bronze
      100% silver for silver

  • @StefanVeenstra
    @StefanVeenstra 3 месяца назад +388

    That's like being awarded the 1.5th place medal.

    • @FacuA0
      @FacuA0 3 месяца назад +25

      More like 1.925th place

    • @ryana5435
      @ryana5435 3 месяца назад +6

      What make this even sad is the French made gold medal’s gold coating started faded after only several days

  • @nickick8498
    @nickick8498 3 месяца назад +17

    *Bite* *teeth shattering*
    “Oh yeah. Thith baby ithn’t real at all.”

  • @VyvienneEaux
    @VyvienneEaux 4 месяца назад +5546

    If you win a gold medal at the Olympics, you deserve a gold medal made of solid gold.

    • @molrat
      @molrat 4 месяца назад +281

      ok are u going to pay for the 178 solid gold medals, each worth $70,000? gold is more expensive than u think g

    • @KFCcycle
      @KFCcycle 4 месяца назад +494

      Yes? If it's a major medal absolutely​@@molrat

    • @parabellum2092
      @parabellum2092 4 месяца назад +626

      @@molratit’s the biggest sporting event on the planet with the best athletes

    • @nasfoda_gamerbrbigproducti5375
      @nasfoda_gamerbrbigproducti5375 4 месяца назад +270

      ​@@molratI mean, the administrators probably cost tens of times the cost of these 100% golden medals, and there's also the cost of marketing that is a huge part. The main attraction of athletes is probably one of the most neglected parts.

    • @StateGenesys
      @StateGenesys 4 месяца назад +18

      No, you dont, half of them are on performing enhancing drugs

  • @y35S
    @y35S 3 месяца назад +121

    I thought it was to test if the gold was chocolate when i was younger

    • @Dany-rx7rs
      @Dany-rx7rs 3 месяца назад +3

      😂😂😂

    • @dragondude6984
      @dragondude6984 3 месяца назад +8

      That would be cool ngl

    • @YesaKitty
      @YesaKitty 3 месяца назад +3

      I thought that until now

    • @paga2000
      @paga2000 3 месяца назад +1

      @@y35S lmao

  • @gonzalot.605
    @gonzalot.605 4 месяца назад +8551

    I've always thought it had something to do with the fact that gold medals look like chocolate coins. 😆

  • @alexacosta2140
    @alexacosta2140 4 месяца назад +104

    So essentially the first place winner gets the same thing as second place but gilded.

    • @RoundShades
      @RoundShades 3 месяца назад +14

      Essentially, all 3 get the same thing, just made of slightly varying proton neutron configurations.

    • @spidey5558
      @spidey5558 2 месяца назад +1

      There's probably some symbolism in that.

  • @jinx8624
    @jinx8624 4 месяца назад +1657

    i feel like olypic medals should be pure gold

    • @OceansWake675
      @OceansWake675 4 месяца назад +101

      Yes, and waste money… who do you think is paying for all that gold? There are so many medals required for the Olympics, and the medal isn’t meant to be sold anyways, it’s a symbol of victory.

    • @ReTenaTor
      @ReTenaTor 4 месяца назад +220

      ​@@OceansWake675i mean you have a point, but still it feels kinda weird that the "gold" medal isnt all gold after all

    • @Beast-yp2ei
      @Beast-yp2ei 4 месяца назад +25

      Looked up an estimate of a pure gold medal and how many events there are in the summer games. It would cost over 6 million dollars and that’s not accounting for team events and it was a lower estimate

    • @vireaknou8835
      @vireaknou8835 4 месяца назад +46

      @@OceansWake675if it is barely gold at all then why call it gold? They should instead made it from silver or bronze? And call it silver/bronze medal and instead reset that the first place winner receive silver second place bronze… and some other cheaper precious metal so at least those are genuine. Instead of gold coated medal for the first place winner.

    • @caralho5237
      @caralho5237 4 месяца назад +86

      ​@@Beast-yp2ei6 million is what some football players earn in a week. They definitely could afford it if they wanted to.

  • @Jayson_Tatum
    @Jayson_Tatum 3 месяца назад +80

    My gold medal winning interview: "I'm so blessed to have won this SILVER medal."

  • @kawa1ku
    @kawa1ku 4 месяца назад +1225

    Second place be like: your just 7.5% first place 😂

    • @kuppih4933
      @kuppih4933 4 месяца назад +16

      It's 92.5% pure silver meaning there's something else in the silver before gold plating.

    • @bohy8974
      @bohy8974 3 месяца назад +1

      Underrated comment 😂

    • @adi96adi
      @adi96adi 3 месяца назад +9

      Actually the silver metals are 92.5% bronze, but plated with silver

    • @bohy8974
      @bohy8974 3 месяца назад +1

      @@adi96adi тнеn, what are bronze medals made of

    • @John-i7o
      @John-i7o 3 месяца назад

      ​@@bohy897492.5% wood and the rest is bronze

  • @Zestieee
    @Zestieee 3 месяца назад +7

    I think I've seen the biting gold thing in some cartoon when I was a kid. Because I still vividly remember it being a thing and I took it for granted which usually means I learned it as a kid

  • @sjappiyah4071
    @sjappiyah4071 4 месяца назад +225

    In high school our soccer team won toronto city championships.
    We all bit our gold medals , 10 years later I know why lol

  • @soham2131
    @soham2131 4 месяца назад +150

    Then silver medal should be made out of bronze
    And bronze medal should be made out of brass😂

    • @musicfriendly12
      @musicfriendly12 4 месяца назад +1

      Yes!!!

    • @DESIBOY-fe7nm
      @DESIBOY-fe7nm 3 месяца назад +20

      Just make them out of clay.

    • @wedmunds
      @wedmunds 3 месяца назад +6

      Bronze would have to be made of steel since brass is also mostly copper

  • @CaveSpiderRider
    @CaveSpiderRider 4 месяца назад +377

    If biting it left marks, it was more likely to be gold plated lead, not gold. Gold is a soft metal, but that's in comparison to things like iron. You are unlikely to be able to leave significant tooth marks in gold.
    Also, pure silver is very similar in hardness to pure gold, so biting it wouldn't reveal the current medals as fake.

    • @tropicalgardenvlogs
      @tropicalgardenvlogs 4 месяца назад +12

      That’s exactly what I thought

    • @VyvienneEaux
      @VyvienneEaux 4 месяца назад +8

      Lead is pretty hard, too. How hard would you have to bite to indent lead?

    • @mathildaandersson1341
      @mathildaandersson1341 4 месяца назад +28

      @@VyvienneEauxnot that hard. Me, being an idiot child would bite lead cause I liked that it made marks.
      (We used it for divination and would re-melt it in burnt out tea lights for storage.)

    • @alice88wa
      @alice88wa 4 месяца назад +52

      So I used to own a 100g gold bar and I bit it once out of curiosity. It left very faint tooth marks - the point is not to leave significant marks but just anything at all is my interpretation of this ritual.

    • @baranbeytemur5451
      @baranbeytemur5451 3 месяца назад +2

      @@VyvienneEaux its not that hard you can cut it with a knife

  • @WierdArtistMarcell
    @WierdArtistMarcell 3 месяца назад +1

    My magpie brain immedoately went "Because SHINY!"

  • @NotNonamelol
    @NotNonamelol 4 месяца назад +698

    > win gold medal
    > look inside
    > silver

    • @juanquntos7123
      @juanquntos7123 4 месяца назад +45

      Even if you're first place, you're really 2nd place in the future eventually

    • @mycelia_ow
      @mycelia_ow 4 месяца назад +1

      Medal*

    • @XGD5layer
      @XGD5layer 4 месяца назад +11

      Maybe the gold really was the friends we made along the way

    • @normaltype5310
      @normaltype5310 3 месяца назад

      To push your limits and see just how far you csn go​@Infinity_7_7

    • @LazyRecap32
      @LazyRecap32 3 месяца назад

      gold medalist: as my last wish after I die..melt my gold medals and pour it over my name letters of my grave stone so that my gold accomplishments will be remembered…☠️
      loved ones after the funereal: Oh…☠️☠️
      anyone passing by years later that didn‘t like the person: I knew it, you were just a silver medalist after all ☠️☠️☠️

  • @alma2176boiii
    @alma2176boiii 3 месяца назад +1

    I see athletes doing this and I always imagine the medal being really poor quality, so they just bite straight through it, leaving them with a half-medal for the rest of their lives

  • @gramfero
    @gramfero 4 месяца назад +21

    king of funny how it indirectly sends the message "noone is №1"

  • @Snard980
    @Snard980 2 месяца назад +1

    65: read that book I’ve been putting off

  • @chrisgill326
    @chrisgill326 3 месяца назад +6

    So THAT’S why SpongeBob did it

  • @vovablood
    @vovablood 3 месяца назад +1

    I was always told to bite into a gold medal to test if it was chocolate instead

  • @teodorsoltan7528
    @teodorsoltan7528 3 месяца назад +4

    The IRONy is that the Gold Medals..

  • @raskullsshako
    @raskullsshako 3 месяца назад

    Went here with my school’s marching band last year, Millersville is our director’s alma mater. It was so fun to play the fight song on snare with the drumline!!
    Go Ville!! 🖤💛

  • @idk_what_to_put_here1
    @idk_what_to_put_here1 4 месяца назад +7

    never thought the would IRONy would be an irony aswell

  • @ouchtor
    @ouchtor 4 месяца назад +2

    When I was little, my dad told me they were making sure it wasn't a chocolate medal. Life ruined

  • @danku_vaazhkai_vro
    @danku_vaazhkai_vro 4 месяца назад +226

    Whaat , now even olympic gold medals are scam?? 😮🤯

    • @ethandesilva7173
      @ethandesilva7173 4 месяца назад +27

      Did you not watch the video it was not recent when they started doing that, it was a 100 plus years. the last time the gold medals was gold was in 1912

    • @soupiaaa
      @soupiaaa 4 месяца назад +7

      that would be very expensive to have every good metal given to every single event be pure gold

    • @CalixSoriano
      @CalixSoriano 4 месяца назад +16

      bros acting like he has won an olympic medal

    • @BRUH-lx3jv
      @BRUH-lx3jv 4 месяца назад +9

      ​@@soupiaaaI think you're overestimating the cost of a medal's amount of gold, the events and other costs will definitely still be WAY more expensive.

    • @soupiaaa
      @soupiaaa 4 месяца назад +3

      @@BRUH-lx3jv i know the other costs to have the olympics would be more expensive im just saying an extra cost is smth they wouldn't want
      last olympics there were 339 medal events meaning they would have to make at least 339 pure gold medals along with all the other costs

  • @AnthonySdp
    @AnthonySdp 3 месяца назад

    "Taste like second....with a hint of 1st place"😅😅😅😂😂😂

  • @NaudVanDalen
    @NaudVanDalen 3 месяца назад +30

    The gold medal is worth $1,027.
    The silver medal is worth $535.
    The bronze medal is worth $4.60.

    •  3 месяца назад +4

      Unlikely. All the metal prices fluctuate.

  • @gabr12l
    @gabr12l 3 месяца назад +1

    That explains Minecraft armor and tools.

  • @oferzilberman5049
    @oferzilberman5049 4 месяца назад +50

    Funny thing is, silver is also a relatively soft metal, meaning biting into it would probably still leave an imprint

    • @soumiksaha48thdimension
      @soumiksaha48thdimension 4 месяца назад

      no

    • @graham1158
      @graham1158 3 месяца назад +3

      @@soumiksaha48thdimension Yes. Silver has almost the same mohs hardness as gold, meaning it's almost as soft as gold.

    • @GazB85
      @GazB85 3 месяца назад +5

      It's sterling silver (92.5% Silver, 7.5% copper.) though, so it's hard.

    • @suspicioussand
      @suspicioussand 3 месяца назад +5

      ​@@GazB85 so the silver part isn't even fully silver? ☠️

    • @GazB85
      @GazB85 3 месяца назад

      @@suspicioussand Not .999 fine, no.

  • @juanleon3875
    @juanleon3875 2 месяца назад +1

    “500$” dollar stakes:

  • @alexnauru7692
    @alexnauru7692 3 месяца назад +3

    I imagine they don’t taste very good

  • @Gust_The_Man
    @Gust_The_Man 2 месяца назад +1

    The brittish voice made me relaxed for some reason

  • @davidseed2939
    @davidseed2939 4 месяца назад +62

    actually gold is harder than the commonly used fake(lead, plated with gold). so the test is for solidity

    • @chernobylnugget822
      @chernobylnugget822 4 месяца назад +5

      *Bites into chunk of lead*

    • @MisterManiac
      @MisterManiac 3 месяца назад +4

      Who tf is making medals with lead? And would they not be obviously heavier?

    • @gaviantxc8213
      @gaviantxc8213 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@MisterManiacgold is like really dense

  • @fenixistired852
    @fenixistired852 3 месяца назад

    God I love this video for so many reasons but when I heard the “You’re my hero” segment it was something I didn’t know I needed to hear it even made me laugh when you commented on how you are probably the only one that needed to hear that even tho things are getting scary for artist it never pushed me or others to want to continue pursuing our passion I really hope I can create a film with dedicated fans like you yes I got this from a 2 hour video character analysis just goes to show you never realize how your art affects people lol thank you

  • @askhams
    @askhams 4 месяца назад +75

    No no no
    The bite test results are the opposite of this.
    A gold-like alloy was actually softer than gold - so a bite would leave a mark.
    Gold is soft, compared to iron etc, but not so much that teeth can mark it.

    • @colm-b
      @colm-b 4 месяца назад +4

      Yeah, this is true. Its sad channels can't do proper research anymore before making a video

    • @MisterManiac
      @MisterManiac 3 месяца назад +4

      That's false, gold jewelry is strengthened by making it an alloy. 24kt gold (aka pure gold) is very soft and is not ideal for making long lasting jewelry.

  • @jakekilla1106
    @jakekilla1106 4 месяца назад +1

    I don’t normally care about any sports but if you’re gonna be the literal best at something you deserve the gold metal damn it

  • @justinganz1173
    @justinganz1173 4 месяца назад +199

    So everyone the wins a gold medal actually ends up winning a silver medal? Since there are two silver medals, would that mean no one wins 1st place then.

    • @aarnealligaattori4856
      @aarnealligaattori4856 4 месяца назад +26

      The medal can be whatever color you want but there is still first place and the "gold" medal is more of a symbol😂😂😂

    • @Pikmin_.
      @Pikmin_. 4 месяца назад +2

      I think you're on to something

    • @Muslim_275
      @Muslim_275 4 месяца назад +4

      ​@@Pikmin_.Onto absolutely nothing

    • @Muslim_275
      @Muslim_275 4 месяца назад +5

      Even if they dont win prizes,first place is first place,its not abt the medal

    • @Pikmin_.
      @Pikmin_. 4 месяца назад +2

      @@Muslim_275 pretty sure it's a joke

  • @Creative_YT
    @Creative_YT 2 месяца назад +1

    They think they’re chocolate coins

  • @jeremiahsacks2868
    @jeremiahsacks2868 3 месяца назад +16

    Me who knows its actually to make sure that theyre not made out of chocolate:

  • @ArtbyNirGo
    @ArtbyNirGo 17 дней назад

    Me watching this video while having a medal in hand :

  • @robotwrench
    @robotwrench 3 месяца назад +4

    I thought it was because people were making sure if it was a chocolate coin or not

  • @soulchorea
    @soulchorea 3 месяца назад

    "thanks, shoeshine boy..." *chomp*

  • @seanpkrueger
    @seanpkrueger 3 месяца назад +14

    1st place: Silver
    2nd place: Silver

  • @sanji5856
    @sanji5856 3 месяца назад +1

    So silver is made from bronze plated silver and bronze is made from chocolate and plated bronze then ?

  • @thealiagator111
    @thealiagator111 4 месяца назад +92

    6 grammes of gold is still more than enough to make sure the winner is a REAL winner

    • @adam-e3f
      @adam-e3f 4 месяца назад +18

      6g of gold is not even 500$

    • @HipFire1
      @HipFire1 4 месяца назад +5

      ​@@adam-e3fit still almost doubles the price of the silver medal.

    • @ciriboi
      @ciriboi 4 месяца назад +10

      @@adam-e3fim pretty sure Olympic athletes get prices that are worth much more than a medal, they're just symbolism and, ideally, are kept as a memory of their achievements.

    • @adam-e3f
      @adam-e3f 4 месяца назад +1

      @@ciriboi of course, I was just responding to the comment saying "6g of gold makes sure the winner is a REAL winner" and I'm pointing out that the 6g of gold doesn't really change much about their success and achievement.

    • @L_OOFY
      @L_OOFY 3 месяца назад +5

      Getting first in the Olympics is enough, the medal is just proof you did it.

  • @iamsongforsomeone994
    @iamsongforsomeone994 3 месяца назад +1

    6 grams is still a lot of gold though. Especially if it’s still silver underneath. Those things still aren’t cheap.

  • @iSchmidty13
    @iSchmidty13 4 месяца назад +17

    The medals should really be made of the metal they’re named after

  • @kimmorris9664
    @kimmorris9664 3 месяца назад +2

    I’d bite my gold metal to increase the chances I get 14 gold medals beating Michael Phelps record which was previously set by Leonids of Rhodes a couple thousand years ago.

  • @yolololswaag1208
    @yolololswaag1208 4 месяца назад +8

    that's how close #2 is to #1

  • @Jonkoloog
    @Jonkoloog 3 месяца назад +1

    Thanks for this video. I am literally shaking and sweating on the toilet right now

  • @cocaccount6336
    @cocaccount6336 4 месяца назад +6

    Athletes: "OWWW!"

  • @spacemeter3001
    @spacemeter3001 3 месяца назад +1

    Not giving the winners actual gold medals sounds like a scam tbh

  • @intergalacticolive
    @intergalacticolive 4 месяца назад +83

    Imagine winning the Olympics and you don’t even get a full gold medal. Absolutely pointless.

    • @Ulyssia2003
      @Ulyssia2003 4 месяца назад +22

      I think you don’t understand the symbolism

    • @stefthorman8548
      @stefthorman8548 3 месяца назад +9

      @@Ulyssia2003 why not just call it, "silver, bronze, copper"? clearly they don't think the athletes deserve real gold, why pretend otherwise?

    • @L_OOFY
      @L_OOFY 3 месяца назад +5

      Pointless!? Do you know how hard it is to even make it to the Olympics???

    • @benjaminzarkhin1293
      @benjaminzarkhin1293 3 месяца назад +5

      ​@stefthorman8548
      Do they sell the medals, or something?

    • @emmym563
      @emmym563 3 месяца назад +9

      Pretty much all gold medal winners also get a pile of money from their home country. They could buy plenty of gold bars if they want to 🏅

  • @JonatasAdoM
    @JonatasAdoM 3 месяца назад +2

    And I used to think gold was harder.

  • @P1losa
    @P1losa 4 месяца назад +14

    Bro, just give the athletes damned gold medals ffs

    • @gavinyeet5821
      @gavinyeet5821 3 месяца назад

      Then the medals wouldn’t hold their form properly

  • @moonshroom711
    @moonshroom711 3 месяца назад

    “Why do athletes bite their golds medals?”
    “For the exact reason you think they do”

  • @PiggyBonkers0309
    @PiggyBonkers0309 4 месяца назад +8

    They wanna make sure it’s not indium

  • @Yellowsam4145
    @Yellowsam4145 3 месяца назад +1

    They were supposed to be chocolate covered in foil. You know those chocolate coins right?

  • @dud3655
    @dud3655 4 месяца назад +10

    There's no reason to still have them made of silver nowadays, they can all be made of 24K pure gold and it would not make any difference to the cost of the event.

    • @Jaffjv
      @Jaffjv 3 месяца назад +4

      If they were solid gold then most of them would be melted down almost immediately. This way people will actually keep them for their symbolic and sentimental value. The athletes do get actual money from their host countries and sponsors on top of the medal

    • @allylilith5605
      @allylilith5605 3 месяца назад

      @@Jaffjv if athletes would get paid properly, then almost none of them would met down their medals, just like now almost none sell them on ebay

    • @Jaffjv
      @Jaffjv 3 месяца назад +4

      @@allylilith5605 why would anyone buy someone else’s Olympic medal? Their value is and is supposed to be symbolic. If they were solid gold and large, they would very valuable for their scrap value. This means that the athlete is holding onto an object that they might be pressured to sell so they can use it for expenses, but then they no longer have their medal. Most countries do pay their athletes for winning, but also remember most athletes spend most their lives training for money, but passion and the love of the sport. For most of its history, the Olympics banned professional athletes, only amateurs

    • @allylilith5605
      @allylilith5605 3 месяца назад

      @@Jaffjv why would someone buy someones original shirt he wore during a game, or why would someone want to buy a baseball that was caught from a decisive homerun etc etc? same principle

    • @Jaffjv
      @Jaffjv 3 месяца назад

      @@allylilith5605 I don’t think there’s nearly as much of a market on Olympic medals unless that athlete becomes a celebrity. Especially compared to much bigger sports like baseball as you mentioned. Also, most people see medals and trophies as something that should only be earned not bought, unlike something used during play that is memorabilia

  • @TempestKrimps
    @TempestKrimps 3 месяца назад

    "i can only gain 3 levels per sector?" my brother in Christ you chose extreme difficulty
    (but seriously this is looking really fun so far, definitely watching the rest!)

  • @Itz_dede1
    @Itz_dede1 3 месяца назад +8

    To check if they aren’t chocolate

  • @smiledespite
    @smiledespite 3 месяца назад

    So the necklace I have from the Christmas I turned 15 shaped like a guitar is just as good as a gold medal from the Olympics

  • @ZsomborH.
    @ZsomborH. 4 месяца назад +8

    Bro,you won the olympics and doesn't even get a real gold medal

  • @Panzerfaust_1939
    @Panzerfaust_1939 2 месяца назад

    No athlete ever thought of the germs on the medal, either by their own hand or unsanitized by the welder

  • @jamieevans2541
    @jamieevans2541 4 месяца назад +74

    Love how all these people who will never win a gold medals in their life are now complaining that it’s not completely made out of gold😂

    • @swiper3871
      @swiper3871 4 месяца назад +35

      Just makes sense that such a great achievement would be genuine gold

    • @musicfriendly12
      @musicfriendly12 4 месяца назад +20

      ​@@swiper3871 also, because it's just bs... It's lying and misleading people... If you call it bronze, silver and gold medals, they for sure should correspond to the materials named... If they worry so much about cost, they should just make them half the size or less.

    • @williamkline6450
      @williamkline6450 4 месяца назад +4

      @@musicfriendly12to be fair, gold silver and bronze are all color names now too

    • @ElectronicHype
      @ElectronicHype 4 месяца назад +14

      Neither will you

    • @phillip4807
      @phillip4807 4 месяца назад +3

      Im sure they get monetarily compensated as their prize. Tho I think the fame and achievement is what really counts. Being a national hero and all. The medal itself is only symbolic"prize".

  • @Inkyminkyzizwoz
    @Inkyminkyzizwoz 3 месяца назад

    While the biting trick would theoretically work with pure gold, all gold coins minted since Tudor times have contained copper to make them more durable

  • @alphae-student1269
    @alphae-student1269 4 месяца назад +12

    So technically we all fought for nothing just plain old silver, jeez that's embarrassing

    • @dreadaby
      @dreadaby 3 месяца назад +2

      So 1st is just a pretty 2nd place ig

    • @footloosegenius2242
      @footloosegenius2242 3 месяца назад

      The Olympics isn't about winning a prize, it's about proving yourself as the best in your sport. The gold medal is only a symbolic representation of their achievement

  • @jayderaider
    @jayderaider 3 месяца назад

    *Bites very hard into olympic gold medal *
    "Tastes like 2nd place..."

  • @mudbuket8064
    @mudbuket8064 4 месяца назад +3

    That’s sad the athletes deserve actual gold for their achievements

    • @NoCluYT
      @NoCluYT 3 месяца назад +2

      Gold is very soft and it's hard to award hundreds of athletes a solid gold medal every 4 years, it would eventually get too expensive and just rare. Not to mention that the medals wouldn't really stand the test of time. Being gold-plated ensures that they last practically forever

  • @ObjectXenoo
    @ObjectXenoo Месяц назад

    That ate that up!!!! Litterally!!!💅💅💅

  • @lila_harris
    @lila_harris 4 месяца назад +3

    You literally didn’t even answer the question.

    • @patrickac2
      @patrickac2 4 месяца назад +4

      I have to disagree. The question was why do they do it. He stated that photographers ask them to. That's seems to me to be a satisfactory answer.

    • @lila_harris
      @lila_harris 4 месяца назад +1

      @@patrickac2 That doesn't explain why the photographers ask them.

    • @user-kc6qr5eo1k
      @user-kc6qr5eo1k 4 месяца назад

      Because its iconic​@@lila_harris

    • @user-kc6qr5eo1k
      @user-kc6qr5eo1k 4 месяца назад

      Are you stupid? Haven't you seen people bite golc coins in movies

    • @ehwodjksnx
      @ehwodjksnx 4 месяца назад

      ​@@lila_harristo ,,test" if it is gold did you not listen

  • @SteveKilgore27
    @SteveKilgore27 3 месяца назад

    I’ve actually heard that on a psychological level biting it says “this is mine”, which makes sense

  • @askjeevescosby2928
    @askjeevescosby2928 4 месяца назад +1

    They really should be gold. These people are the best in the world and they get payed less than bam

  • @marmite-land
    @marmite-land 3 месяца назад

    In ancient Egypt, and globally throughout antiquity, silver was so rare compared to gold IT was considered the finest metal out of the two. Stronger and perfectly devoid of any tint. Silver jewellery from Egypt was the finest jewellery a person from antiquity could own.

  • @ciphergacha9100
    @ciphergacha9100 3 месяца назад +1

    5:28 for those curious, the 1-frame text says
    “I am happy, healthy and would very much appreciate not getting hit with the classic Clinton removal play”

  • @BobbieDeBird
    @BobbieDeBird 3 месяца назад

    There might also be some history behind it, as before battles Vikings would chew on metal to get their nerves up for the battle.

  • @TokerJoker420
    @TokerJoker420 3 месяца назад +1

    Damn even if you win gold you still get silver what a rip

  • @Oak_II
    @Oak_II 4 месяца назад +1

    Just make it out of gold it's not like they don't have the money

  • @vaishnavivaish2554
    @vaishnavivaish2554 3 месяца назад +2

    Isn't that like cheating come on they've worked their whole lives for this only to get scammed like this

  • @Eee-n6e
    @Eee-n6e 3 месяца назад

    I want this remade but with jschlatt singing aria math in the background

  • @carimeslockdownedtree2654
    @carimeslockdownedtree2654 3 месяца назад +1

    Yeah I was actually right with my intuition. Nice.
    It reminded me of yk, biting on pearls to see if they're real or not (salty taste), so it was an easy conclusion to come to for me

  • @big4headedGangster
    @big4headedGangster 3 месяца назад +1

    I thought because of the chocolate coins and it was like testing if its real gold or not

  • @scoots291
    @scoots291 4 месяца назад

    The last metal i had was wood in a gold wrapper😂

  • @AmmarAlshomali
    @AmmarAlshomali 3 месяца назад

    They said tasted victory they tasted littile gold.

  • @eiswitch
    @eiswitch 3 месяца назад

    I thought they do that cuz its like eating one of those coined-shape chocolates with gold wrapping

  • @Pepesmall
    @Pepesmall 3 месяца назад

    I would almost guarantee this is so that no one tries to steal them and sell them or replace them with fakes.

  • @DOOM_IV
    @DOOM_IV 4 месяца назад

    there isn’t enough gold in the world to supply every athlete with a pure gold or gold alloy medal.

  • @DrMantisToboggan2005
    @DrMantisToboggan2005 3 месяца назад

    Imagine training your whole life and you win at the Olympics, and you’ll never earn a gold.

  • @daroldfuapse6178
    @daroldfuapse6178 4 месяца назад

    I always thought one would bite the gold coin to hold on to it while trying to bend it a little with the hand, not trying to put a dent in your nice gold coin. And it has always seemed tacky to me when the athletes bite their medals. I often have a mini fantasy of refusing to do it when I win my gold medal.

  • @triggerfinger7831
    @triggerfinger7831 3 месяца назад

    Now it explains why Yusuf Dikec only went for the silver medal 😂

  • @Zeetrik
    @Zeetrik 3 месяца назад

    I do know that Spanish tennis player Nadal always bit into his medals (it was his iconic pose) and that a lot of Spanish athletes and international tennis players followed.
    He might not have been the originator but he was definitively a trendsetter.

    • @BertaRS
      @BertaRS 3 месяца назад +1

      Spanish athletes have been doing it since at least Barcelona 92. That's where Nadal saw it. So I'm going to believe we started it and Nadal spread it.

  • @HyperSoundsMusic
    @HyperSoundsMusic 3 месяца назад +2

    Nah, in case there's chocolate

  • @whitedemon2237
    @whitedemon2237 4 месяца назад +1

    My father has a real gold medal from marathon

  • @Poopick
    @Poopick 4 месяца назад

    This raises more questions than answers. Why silver? What is their reasoning? Why do the photographers whant this pose? So many questions...

    • @k0mentator507
      @k0mentator507 3 месяца назад +1

      Because silver is much, MUCH less expensive than gold

    • @k0mentator507
      @k0mentator507 3 месяца назад +1

      and one thing I can think of is baiting into things really states something like „look, it’s mine” because you literally leave your marks on it and, being honest, nobody wants to touch something that was bitten by another person lol. So in short it’s basically saying „this medal is mine and mine alone!”

    • @Poopick
      @Poopick 3 месяца назад +1

      @@k0mentator507 thanks