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What the fuck? Is it just me, or did they look like a Tupperware lid you left in the microwave too long? Just noticed after the hockey…Ugggghh-leee. But still. Gold… —Next Time Ask a SOBER Person
This article appears in Feb 25 – Mar 3, 2010.
25 Comments
Maybe it’s like a compact and there’s a big BC bud in there.
Info regarding the design:
http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-news/…
I like them.
Almost as good as the Torch that looks like a joint.
Not to mention that the flowers givesn out at the end of the hockey game looked like broccoli plants
THe torch lookes like a joint that was rolled by someone who isn’t any good a rolling.
The medals I agree are ugly looking.
I didn’t get a sense of rolling waves, or whatever crap the description mentioned.
To me they look cheesey, like they are bent & defective. Or like the OP mentioned, they’ve buckled from being placed on a hot surface.
I thought the same. Looks like someone dropped it and jumped on it. Not sure. But it only contains 6 grams of gold….so the medal is worth less than $250.
There’s really not a lot you can do design wise to make a medal much different except carve a new picture into the front, which people at home would barely notice. Maybe make it bigger or smaller, but we don’t need a bunch of Flava Flav clocks running around the Olympics. Or change the shape entirely, and I know how pissed you’d all be if they happened to be square or something. So I think that they’ve done a good job of making something new and noticeable.
They look like we took perfectly good medals and left them on train tracks.
The silver ones are pure silver & the gold ones are also silver, but with 6 grams of gold plating, supposedly.
You imagine working your whole life to get to a gold medal podium of the olympics…& they give you a piece of costume jewelery !
I’d be pissed.
Who cares what it looks like, or what it’s made of? It’s all about the bragging rights!
stfu
I thought they were just fine. Better than the ones from Turin that looked like CDs, that’s for sure. But in any case, you’re missing the point.
I’m sure they look better in real life. The ones I’ve seen in the paper look bad because the photo and lighting flattens it out and it ends up just looking like a disfigured blob.
I heard one athlete from a past olympics (can’t remember who) say that apparently the medals are only coated with gold, so sebastard’s right. This athlete, I remember, said that so many people had touched his medal that the gold was wearing off.
And I agree — the medals were ugly as fuck and the flowers did look like broccoli plants. heh.
Haha….broccoli plants. Yes, that’s it. My friends and I were trying to figure out what those were. Maybe it was a Green initiative…now they can all go home and grow broccoli in their yards. One of the Canadian women’s hockey team members threw her’s into the crowd with a foul look on her face. I don’t blame her.
it’s because she thought it was gonna be bc bud
so where are all your guys designs that you subbmitted to the olympic committee? they must have been real winners not to make the top of the list and be selected to craft into olympic medals.
Holy fak people are critical. Its a god damn medal. Who gives two craps what it looks like its the achievement to get it that’s impressive. I thought they were pretty cool myself with a decent design formulation. And they look a lot better than the CD’s handed out at Torino.
Its Love the Way We Bitch NOT “Don’t You Just Love My Idea?”
I liked it. There was a design embossed into the gold plating that made it obvious that the medal was supposed to be like that.
I hear if you hold up the gold medal just right at 12:00 on 12-21-2012 at 12°12’12” latitude and 12°12’12” longitude the suns rays will reflect off in all directions such that they will cause cataclysmic destruction.
That’s why they’re fucking bent.
and how many did we give to Germany???
real smart.
2012…i’m gonna invest in tinfoil and well..zombie killing shit
what’s all this about 2012?
I think the bouquet they get at the medals ceremony is a tradition that echos what was done at the original Olympics in ancient Greece.
They design it anew each time to match the colours of the games images, and are often made of plants that grow locally.
In some cases, the winners are encouraged to throw them jubulantly into the cheering crowd (like at a wedding) or they can just keep it as a souvenir of the event.
As for the medals, I thought the design was cool. I liked the “mountain/wave” feel and I loved the way they applied the West Coast motif.
Of course the “gold” medals have to be gold plated. Could you imagine the price per unit if each of those things was solid gold, at, what more than $1000.00 an ounce? We would be looking at a $10,000 medal for each and every first place winner. There is nothing wrong with gold-plating something like this, as long as the overall design is good.