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.
@@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
@@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.
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.
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
@@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.
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
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 ☠️☠️☠️
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.
@@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.)
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.
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
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
@@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
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.
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.
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”
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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 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
@@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
@@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
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!! 🖤💛
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.
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.
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
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
@@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.
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".
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
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
I feel like the irony is was at the start of this video when photographers asked people who won a contest about worldwide cooperation and trust to pretend they think they’ve been cheated by the Olympics and need to test the medals authenticity.
I was waiting for “Silver medals are made of bronze and silver plated”
What would bronze be made of?!
@@ChocBlock cardboard
@@ChocBlockgold 😳😳😳
@@ChocBlock copper
Iron
So technically, nobody won gold medals at the Olympics since 1912.
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😭
@@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
@@YellowFella4590000.1 = 0.1
Yep
Well.
"Tastes like victory..."
tastes like a lie😔🔫
Tastes like metal
@@TempoChannel5Tastes like premature majorly-silver electrum in my mouth! 😁
chocolate medal thingy
@@windwardwave when did I say I have depression
Fun fact: During the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, winners received silver medals, with 2nd place receiving copper medals.
This system would persist until 1906 when the tri-metallic system was introduced.
So what did 3rd win?
@@GazB85 Sorrow
@@TheTobyOMG 😂
@@GazB85wood
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.
2% sounds like a lot
Probably because there's just 244000 ton of gold . That's it
@@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
"only" 2% of an event that costs well over one billion USD
More like 0.02%
"Wait... It's all silver?"
"Always has been"
lol
Haven't heard that meme in a long time
well, at least since 1912
Bronze medalists: HAHA I'm the special one now!
95% silver and 5% gold for gold
95% bronze and 5% silver for bronze
100% silver for silver
If you win a gold medal at the Olympics, you deserve a gold medal made of solid gold.
ok are u going to pay for the 178 solid gold medals, each worth $70,000? gold is more expensive than u think g
Yes? If it's a major medal absolutely@@molrat
@@molratit’s the biggest sporting event on the planet with the best athletes
@@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.
No, you dont, half of them are on performing enhancing drugs
*Bite* *teeth shattering*
“Oh yeah. Thith baby ithn’t real at all.”
I've always thought it had something to do with the fact that gold medals look like chocolate coins. 😆
Choclate coins look like medals
That would actually make sense if it was true.
Are you twelve?
@@tamastasi428 I'm 26.
Me too😂😂
That's like being awarded the 1.5th place medal.
More like 1.925th place
What make this even sad is the French made gold medal’s gold coating started faded after only several days
I thought it was to test if the gold was chocolate when i was younger
😂😂😂
That would be cool ngl
I thought that until now
@@y35S lmao
So essentially the first place winner gets the same thing as second place but gilded.
Essentially, all 3 get the same thing, just made of slightly varying proton neutron configurations.
There's probably some symbolism in that.
i feel like olypic medals should be pure gold
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.
@@OceansWake675i mean you have a point, but still it feels kinda weird that the "gold" medal isnt all gold after all
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
@@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.
@@Beast-yp2ei6 million is what some football players earn in a week. They definitely could afford it if they wanted to.
My gold medal winning interview: "I'm so blessed to have won this SILVER medal."
In high school our soccer team won toronto city championships.
We all bit our gold medals , 10 years later I know why lol
Second place be like: your just 7.5% first place 😂
It's 92.5% pure silver meaning there's something else in the silver before gold plating.
Underrated comment 😂
Actually the silver metals are 92.5% bronze, but plated with silver
@@adi96adi тнеn, what are bronze medals made of
@@bohy897492.5% wood and the rest is bronze
Then silver medal should be made out of bronze
And bronze medal should be made out of brass😂
Yes!!!
Just make them out of clay.
Bronze would have to be made of steel since brass is also mostly copper
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
> win gold medal
> look inside
> silver
Even if you're first place, you're really 2nd place in the future eventually
Medal*
Maybe the gold really was the friends we made along the way
To push your limits and see just how far you csn go@Infinity_7_7
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 ☠️☠️☠️
So THAT’S why SpongeBob did it
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.
That’s exactly what I thought
Lead is pretty hard, too. How hard would you have to bite to indent lead?
@@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.)
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.
@@VyvienneEaux its not that hard you can cut it with a knife
I was always told to bite into a gold medal to test if it was chocolate instead
king of funny how it indirectly sends the message "noone is №1"
When I was little, my dad told me they were making sure it wasn't a chocolate medal. Life ruined
Funny thing is, silver is also a relatively soft metal, meaning biting into it would probably still leave an imprint
no
@@soumiksaha48thdimension Yes. Silver has almost the same mohs hardness as gold, meaning it's almost as soft as gold.
It's sterling silver (92.5% Silver, 7.5% copper.) though, so it's hard.
@@GazB85 so the silver part isn't even fully silver? ☠️
@@suspicioussand Not .999 fine, no.
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
Me who knows its actually to make sure that theyre not made out of chocolate:
The only intellectual here, I fear.
My magpie brain immedoately went "Because SHINY!"
The IRONy is that the Gold Medals..
They think they’re chocolate coins
Whaat , now even olympic gold medals are scam?? 😮🤯
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
that would be very expensive to have every good metal given to every single event be pure gold
bros acting like he has won an olympic medal
@@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.
@@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
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.
The gold medal is worth $1,027.
The silver medal is worth $535.
The bronze medal is worth $4.60.
Unlikely. All the metal prices fluctuate.
They were supposed to be chocolate covered in foil. You know those chocolate coins right?
I thought it was because people were making sure if it was a chocolate coin or not
Spoiler: it wasn't 😔
Lolololo
The brittish voice made me relaxed for some reason
So everyone the wins a gold medal actually ends up winning a silver medal? Since there are two silver medals, would that mean no one wins 1st place then.
The medal can be whatever color you want but there is still first place and the "gold" medal is more of a symbol😂😂😂
I think you're on to something
@@Pikmin_.Onto absolutely nothing
Even if they dont win prizes,first place is first place,its not abt the medal
@@Muslim_275 pretty sure it's a joke
5:28 for those curious, the 1-frame text says
“I am happy, healthy and would very much appreciate not getting hit with the classic Clinton removal play”
I imagine they don’t taste very good
So silver is made from bronze plated silver and bronze is made from chocolate and plated bronze then ?
actually gold is harder than the commonly used fake(lead, plated with gold). so the test is for solidity
*Bites into chunk of lead*
Who tf is making medals with lead? And would they not be obviously heavier?
@@MisterManiacgold is like really dense
They really should be gold. These people are the best in the world and they get payed less than bam
never thought the would IRONy would be an irony aswell
Isn't that like cheating come on they've worked their whole lives for this only to get scammed like this
6 grammes of gold is still more than enough to make sure the winner is a REAL winner
6g of gold is not even 500$
@@adam-e3fit still almost doubles the price of the silver medal.
@@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.
@@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.
Getting first in the Olympics is enough, the medal is just proof you did it.
Nah, in case there's chocolate
The medals should really be made of the metal they’re named after
6 grams is still a lot of gold though. Especially if it’s still silver underneath. Those things still aren’t cheap.
1st place: Silver
2nd place: Silver
65: read that book I’ve been putting off
Bro, just give the athletes damned gold medals ffs
Then the medals wouldn’t hold their form properly
Not giving the winners actual gold medals sounds like a scam tbh
To check if they aren’t chocolate
That explains Minecraft armor and tools.
Imagine winning the Olympics and you don’t even get a full gold medal. Absolutely pointless.
I think you don’t understand the symbolism
@@Ulyssia2003 why not just call it, "silver, bronze, copper"? clearly they don't think the athletes deserve real gold, why pretend otherwise?
Pointless!? Do you know how hard it is to even make it to the Olympics???
@stefthorman8548
Do they sell the medals, or something?
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 🏅
Me watching this video while having a medal in hand :
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.
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
@@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
@@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
@@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
@@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
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!! 🖤💛
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.
Yeah, this is true. Its sad channels can't do proper research anymore before making a video
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.
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
Bro,you won the olympics and doesn't even get a real gold medal
And I used to think gold was harder.
that's how close #2 is to #1
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
Athletes: "OWWW!"
Just make it out of gold it's not like they don't have the money
They wanna make sure it’s not indium
you are wrong. they do it to make sure it is chocolate. glad i could help 😁
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😂
Just makes sense that such a great achievement would be genuine gold
@@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.
@@musicfriendly12to be fair, gold silver and bronze are all color names now too
Neither will you
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".
No athlete ever thought of the germs on the medal, either by their own hand or unsanitized by the welder
So technically we all fought for nothing just plain old silver, jeez that's embarrassing
So 1st is just a pretty 2nd place ig
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
“Why do athletes bite their golds medals?”
“For the exact reason you think they do”
That’s sad the athletes deserve actual gold for their achievements
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
It would be cool to mark a medal as yours by having your personal bite mark in it.
You literally didn’t even answer the question.
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.
@@patrickac2 That doesn't explain why the photographers ask them.
Because its iconic@@lila_harris
Are you stupid? Haven't you seen people bite golc coins in movies
@@lila_harristo ,,test" if it is gold did you not listen
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
"Taste like second....with a hint of 1st place"😅😅😅😂😂😂
Imagine training your whole life and you win at the Olympics, and you’ll never earn a gold.
Guys 6 geam of gold is used
They forget its real gold and think its one of those chocolates.
They’re testing if it’s a real medal or a chocolate one
Thanks for this video. I am literally shaking and sweating on the toilet right now
*Bites very hard into olympic gold medal *
"Tastes like 2nd place..."
Damn even if you win gold you still get silver what a rip
The 3rd guy looks like he could actually bit it
I thought because of the chocolate coins and it was like testing if its real gold or not
I’ve actually heard that on a psychological level biting it says “this is mine”, which makes sense
My father has a real gold medal from marathon
does that mean winning a silver medal is like winning a gold medal
I read the title as "why do athiests bite their medals" 💀
I always thought of chocolate coins when I see them bite the medals
Ah. So gold medals are fake too. I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
"thanks, shoeshine boy..." *chomp*
If I won a gold medal I wouldn't want to ruin it with a tooth mark...
They said tasted victory they tasted littile gold.
The last metal i had was wood in a gold wrapper😂
there isn’t enough gold in the world to supply every athlete with a pure gold or gold alloy medal.
I feel like the irony is was at the start of this video when photographers asked people who won a contest about worldwide cooperation and trust to pretend they think they’ve been cheated by the Olympics and need to test the medals authenticity.
This implies every gold-medalist is actually a silver medalist. 😢
That ate that up!!!! Litterally!!!💅💅💅