Why do Olympic champions bite gold medals?
Aug 19, 2008 02:15
LEOPOLD219 Points: 2339 Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: offline	Have you noticed that plenty of athletes bite gold medals on the podium? Why do they bite gold medals? Olympic champions of Women's Badmintion Doubles Du Jing (R) and Yu Yang

Aug 19, 2008 02:17	#1
LEOPOLD219 Points: 2339 Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	No.2

Aug 19, 2008 02:18	#2
LEOPOLD219 Points: 2339 Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Phelps

Aug 19, 2008 02:30	#3
ZANG Points: 28 Join Date: Aug 19, 2008 Status: Offline	when people used gold curreny, they bit to make sure that the currency received were pure gold or silver.

Aug 19, 2008 02:32	#4
ZANG Points: 28 Join Date: Aug 19, 2008 Status: Offline	I guess they are trying to say " oh come one guys, it's really gold medal."

Aug 19, 2008 02:46	#5
APAULT Points: 6858 Join Date: Mar 11, 2006 Status: Offline	Yes, ppl used to bite gold to test if it was genuine and not mixed with lead, which although heavy is soft and you can leave teeth marks.

Aug 19, 2008 19:39	#6
SHESGOTTOBE Points: 3599 Join Date: Nov 23, 2007 Status: Offline	Maybe they taste like chicken.

Aug 19, 2008 20:57	#7
LEONARDO Points: 3071 Join Date: May 21, 2007 Status: Offline	They wanna know how gold medal taste. They ate enormous bitterness before receiving gold medals. It is possible that they just poise for photography.

Feb 28, 2010 19:04	#8
GUEST13126	People used to bite test gold and silver coins etc. to test for authenticity. The precious metals in their pure forms are very soft, softer than tooth enamel and thus would sustain teeth marks. Today its just a custom as the medals are mostly made from silver anyways. Like kissing it, its just something they do for the cameras, not because they actually believe its a cheap alloy.

Mar 4, 2010 01:05	#9
CHERRY07 Points: 4585 Join Date: Mar 23, 2008 Status: Offline	Who was the first one to bite the golden medal? I guess that they are just imitating each other.

Jul 31, 2012 14:33	#10
GUEST97120	since everyone does it.. they do it too to keep that tradition

 

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