"Ryan Cousineau" wrote in message
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"Nicolas" wrote:
"Ryan Cousineau" wrote in message
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Bad plan. Almost all of the "gold" medals from 1920 onwards have been
gilt silver.
http://www.hesge.ch/heg/vous_etes/do...hnyder_annexe1
.pdf
Can someone confirm that the Albertville, Lillehammer, and Atlanta
medals were substantially gold?
As for women's cycling, it just doesn't pay well. There are AAA hockey
players who make more than most women cyclists.
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Ryan Cousineau
Gilt, well at least some had gold edges, or something similar from other
accounts. Still pathetic. Olympic champions should have real gold medals,
or
least solid gold plated, cheapskates. They might as well use medals from
crackerjack boxes. Olympic and World Championship gold, should be gold
plated. If Silver is silver, Gold should be Gold. It's a fraud on the
sport,
public and the athletes.
"Gilt" means gold-plated. The Olympics are about the spirit of
competition, and while the medals shouldn't be chintzy, neither do they
need to be all that valuable.
Besides, the collectible value of Olympic medals is vastly greater than
the intrinsic value.
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Ryan Cousineau
Maybe so, but everyone loves a solid gold watch or a gold rolex! Looking at
the pdf, some years didn't have any gold in the medals, but used silver and
copper. The gold medal should be something of real material value in my
opinion as well, other then collectable or historical keepsakes. I think
there is also motivation in winning something of real value in the short
run, as well as long term collectable value. Gold is becoming more valuable
all the time. Pretty soon, you may not see any gold in these medals. I live
across the street from a closed gold mine, in which one million dollars of
gold was mined out of it during the gold rush days. It was recently sold to
someone for $400k, but then sold again. I don't know who owns it now.
Recently, 2 men died in another mine in our area from carbon monoxide. In
Sonora, not far away was mined the largest single piece of gold in history,
I believe. Could be wrong about that, but it was huge! The workers were
allowed to keep small pieces that fell out onto the delivery table, while
the foreman took the largest piece to the owner. It was sold to a museum for
millions! I used to ride by the remote Swee****er mine often, and Swee****er
Clyde used to be there running his mine. He even had track with small carts
he used to work the mine. He offered me a tour some time, but he died a
short time later, and the mine was closed. He was on the cover of the book
called, (A Day in the Life of California). I have seen quite a few abondoned
mines on my MB rides, but I never went inside any of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironstone's_Crown_Jewel
Nicolas