Gimme suma dat gold

Why are they all trying to eat their medals?

>>67683
Its some kind of traditional thing. I think they bite down to prove its real gold. Could be wrong though.

What's the name of the middle girl? She's giving me a Thomas Jefferson boner.

>>67683
An old practice to test whether agold coin was counterfeit was tobitedown on it. Since puregoldis relatively soft any base metals mixed with thegold to lessen its value will also harden the coin, and so make it harder tobiteon

t. Wikipedia

The medals are likely not fully or even half gold, so it's purely a tradition.

>>67672
Later, if I remember, I will take the picture to /b/ and ask them to photoshop dicks.

>>67692
>I think they bite down to prove its real gold.
this, although most people think pure gold will compress when in the past they were looking for fake soft coins because the fake coins would be gold+lead which is softer than pure gold

>>67701
Laurie Hernandez

>>67728
>t. Wikipedia

Obviously you didn't actually read the wiki article, otherwise you'd know it's actually
>>67788

Also the medals are made of gold-plated silver, and of course silver was also sometimes faked with plated lead, since their densities are almost identical (10.5 and 11.3 resp.; gold is 19.3, the most common element with density in that range, so it's far easier to prove fake gold by taking weight/vol.).

>>67854
>so it's far easier to prove fake gold by taking weight/vol.).
Eureka! Eureka!

>>67672
>Most US gold medal winners usually get million dollar endorsement deals
>Complain that the 1% have to pay taxes

>>67898
Yeah, but some day I might become a millionaire and find out that percentage still leaves me with a ton of cash and my outrage was completely pointless!

>>67672
>Why does the U.S. tax it's Olympians?
Prize money = income = federal income tax

>>67899
This thread is about US Olympian medalist making 10-25k per medal + million dollar endorsements as income and having to pay taxes on it, not about you being jealous of others making more than you.

>>67901
My point is that poorfags have a weird mentality that they'll be rich some day and taxes will actually affect them when they are. This extends to giving a shit about olympic athletes only getting a few million instead of several million. As a non-poor cuck, I can tell you, having a chunk of your large income taken doesn't fucking matter because you're still making good money. Only the needlessly greedy and the delusionally poor give a shit about income taxes on the rich.

>>67788
Pure gold is actually soft.
The gold you wear is mixed wih copper