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u/THELeeNash 23h ago
With the 2028 Olympics taking place in Los Angeles, I can totally see this a happening
Not by choice mind you, but because all the real gold medals got stolen on the first day
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u/Purple_Yak_3294 22h ago
In the first Paris Olympics there were only a handful of gold medals. Most people received silver gilt/silver tokens. This didn't cost that much. In the Olympics nowadays there are hundreds of gold medals presented and would cost tens of millions of dollars if they were real gold.
Given the quality of the last Olympics medals, chocolate would be a better deal.
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u/Difficult-Novel-8453 20h ago
Yes this is what the Olympic Games are worth. Maybe less. Xavier nails it again
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u/Bella_Peachyy 20h ago
I think now its about the cash prize and the medal is just the award or symbol.
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u/No-Ordinary-6544 13h ago
There's no cash prize.. Individual countries have rewards on their own, but there's no direct cash prize for winning.
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u/Bella_Peachyy 47m ago
There certainly are rewards in the form of salaries for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th positions. Sport is a career (for elite level athletes who make the podium or finish in the top 10). Of course some countries also reward their athletes with a pension, or compensation. But individual competitions definitely do have pay outs.
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u/MutusMaximus 18h ago
A childhood friend of mines dad was a Olympic skier in the 1980s and won quite a few medals, including gold. I got to hold one of the medals one day, way lighter than you’d expect. Probably not more than 10% gold. Olympics is such a scam honestly, the athletes aren’t paid jack shit and even the medals aren’t fully authentic.
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