interestingasfuck

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.

*After reading the article*

Patina is one thing but the front chipping is nuts.

Ea-Nasir strikes again.

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.

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.

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.

It's called patina, and it's super supposed to be there!

/s

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.

are there pics of medals from other olympics to compare it to?

Crafted with copper from Minecraft

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

Pfft, should have won gold.

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.

https://people.com/team-usa-skateboarder-nyjah-huston-reveals-poor-condition-olympic-bronze-medal-8693042

https://www.lvmh.com/news-lvmh/paris-2024-and-lvmh-unveil-the-outfits-and-medals-trays-for-the-victory-ceremonies

Prooooooobably won't be buying anything from them if their medals fall apart this quickly, haha.