• Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
    187·
    4 个月前

    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.

      • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
        37·
        4 个月前

        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.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          7·
          4 个月前

          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.

          • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
            5·
            4 个月前

            Maybe they should tax it if they sell the award. Else the athletes need to pay to put their prize in their prize closet.

        • blandfordforever@lemm.ee
          18·
          4 个月前

          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.

          • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
            2·
            4 个月前

            Unless they make the sponsors pay and also like a lump sum of money from the sponsors to the athletes I don’t see that as a good idea.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    107·
    4 个月前

    *After reading the article*

    Patina is one thing but the front chipping is nuts.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
        20·
        4 个月前

        I have had $10 jewelery from K-Mart that never chipped no matter what abuse I put it through.

      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 个月前

        You can bite into lead. You can’t bite into gold, silver and bronze. That’s why it used to be a test for fake coins. If the chips are bite marks, the metal’s really low grade. Biting into Gold and Silver is even easier.

        • vithigar@lemmy.ca
          17·
          4 个月前

          You have it backwards. Gold is extremely malleable and you can easily leave marks in pure gold by biting it.

          • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
            1·
            4 个月前

            Yep, I’ve since looked it up, and it’s apparently the most malleable metal, with Silver coming second. To be fair, Lead is pretty malleable, too, and you can leave bite marks in it if you put it in your mouth.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    71·
    4 个月前

    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.

  • Laereht@lemmy.world
    58·
    4 个月前

    Did all the competitors understand that they were striving for chocolate medals? Seems a bit like a weird choice to me.

  • Krauerking@lemy.lol
    56·
    4 个月前

    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.

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
    55·
    4 个月前

    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.

  • teft@lemmy.world
    41·
    4 个月前

    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?

    • beefbot
      27·
      4 个月前

      They spent the funds for clear coat on those selfie cameras

      • HorreC@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 个月前

        Those are an AD, they are all the brand new samsung flip phone. Its only to show them with it in hand.

        • tyler@programming.dev
          1·
          4 个月前

          I wouldn’t have known it was a Samsung phone if you didn’t say anything… wasn’t a good ad until you mentioned it. I just thought it was a dumb selfie thing.

          • HorreC@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 个月前

            The only reason I saw it was all the ads plastered for it like every other ad break, thank what ever stars you live in an area that isnt just beating it into your skull every 5 min.

            • tyler@programming.dev
              2·
              3 个月前

              Oh I watched on CBC 😂. I ain’t watching on anything that has actual ads (there’s ads, but they’re Canadian)

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        4 个月前

        See, they install that TruCoat at the factory. There’s nothing we can do about that.

  • No1@aussie.zone
    25·
    4 个月前

    Grab a spray can and clear coat them as soon as they hang it around your neck lol