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.
thanks obama
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.
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.
The athleyes does not pay their medals they win, wtf??
To be fair, a lot of athletes are also looking for advertising deals from being in the Olympics.
*After reading the article*
Patina is one thing but the front chipping is nuts.
I keep seeing all the athletes biting them.
I have had $10 jewelery from K-Mart that never chipped no matter what abuse I put it through.
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.
The absolute shit quality is how you know it's an authentic Olympic Medal (tm)
Did all the competitors understand that they were striving for chocolate medals? Seems a bit like a weird choice to me.
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
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.
It's called patina, and it's super supposed to be there!
/s
Coin collectors would scream at you to not clean or polish it!
I'd check their hand lotions for sulfur based compounds. The quick way to patina copper is with boiled egg yolks because they contain sulfur.
But also why didn't the IOC just throw on some clear coat?
Just open it and eat the chocolate already.
Shouldn't have dipped it in the river...
Grab a spray can and clear coat them as soon as they hang it around your neck lol
I was about to say I'm surprised they didn't lacquer them.
Crafted with copper from Minecraft
That ain't bronze.
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.
US skateboarder learns about oxidization for the first time.
Downvoters: Google brass patina and tell me what that looks like. Olympic "bronze" medals are made of brass. Brass oxidizes. This is oxidization. It's not an inferior product or a hallmark of the cheapness if Olympics, it's a thing that happens to some metals and metal alloys.
I googled it and it looks like the time required for this to happen naturally means your downvotes are justified.
So...your point is that it's a widely known process, and that the manufacturer didn't know/choose to coat it because they're not being cheap?
that looks more like a plating that came off than patina
But does that explain the front chipping, as stated in the article? Especially after, what, 5-7 days, at most?
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