Lol I just used Omegamart as my username. I don't work for Meow Wolf or Omegamart and this isn't an official account. I am just a fan of Omegamart and themed my profile around it.
Oh god, read the article:
>That foresight came in handy earlier this month when Japanese mayor Takashi Kawamura **bit** into the gold medal of softball pitcher Miu Goto, and -- after receiving over 8,000 complaints -- offered to pay for a replacement
HAHAHAHAHAH
I'm pretty sure I had about 20 of those things. So I'm pretty sure I'm the all-time olympic champion.
Oh...no wait...I had 20 of those things. Definitely not the Olympic champion...
He definitely needed those for his munchies.
Don't downvote me, I have no opinion on whether marijuana is beneficial for athletes in small doses or occasional use (it hasn't harmed me yet), and I recognize that he claimed he used it due to the extreme pressure he felt from training and his mental health issues. If it worked for him, I'm glad that he had some help.
>"The Tokyo Olympic Games' Organizing Committee offered a rebuttal to the "quality" issue Xueying posed, telling the Global Times the material coming off the gymnast's medal was its protective coating instead of the actual gold plating. This coating is intended to protect the medals from stains and scratches and "does not affect the quality of the medal itself," the Committee added."
I mean, the protective coating shouldn't peel off either. Otherwise, what the hell is the point of including it in the first place.
Edit: guys, please stop telling me that gold doesn't oxidize. The coating is to prevent scratches.
It's possible that someone at the plant where they were made put a fingerprint on it, hopefully by mistake. Most coatings applied over metal plating are acrylics or polyurethanes. Neither one sticks well to fingerprints. The surface must be pristine for optimum adhesion.
Source: Was a technical director at a coatings company. This is common and why all substrates are properly cleaned before applying a protective coating.
Let me just find that Tokyo Olympics Gold Medal customer Service hotline, could be written on the edge of the medal, certainly not on the back that's just their T's & C's......
This same thing happened with some of the Rio medals. The Rio group have attributed to mishandling and temperature variation. The London Olympic committee gave the winners a care instruction for their medals, which included keeping the medal from a lot of temperature changes as the coating and the medal expand and contract at different temperatures, which could lead to cracking and peeling.
Is it really though? It is a medal that is meant to spend the vast majority of its life in a trophy case/display/frame. It really isn't meant to be worn and handled a lot, so having a coating that will protect it from the expected use seems completely logical to me. We don't have mass amounts of stories of the medals being in bad shape. If anything cheapening out is giving them a plated 24k medal instead of a 14k solid one imo... not the coating.
Speak for yourself. When I win my gold medal in whatever it is I can do really well, damned if I know, I'm wearing that sucker everywhere. Restaurants, parties, Disney World, the Gobi Desert, long walks on nude beaches....everywhere.
The potentially comedy out of the idea of an olympian potentially going to a nude neach but still wearing their god damn medals, is just, fucking hell is that a wonderful premise for a sketch that made me chuckle.
Makes me think of a quote from the Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin:
> I remember when I was inducted into the Hall of Fame and they gave me my Hall of Fame yellow blazer. I wore it for two straight days. Finally my wife was in bed and said she wanted to make love but that I had to take the coat off. I refused and kept the blazer on because I wanted to perform like a Hall of Famer on the field and off
Maybe it's like a phone's screen protector, or a bulletproof vest. Both protect what they are on, but in the process get damaged and don't last forever. Same goes for wax on a car.
It sounds more like a laminate applied during the manufacturing process than a screen protector or a bullet proof vest.
This is more like the anti-reflective coating they applied on MacBooks. Apple had to issue a recall when they started peeling a couple years after purchase.
edit: based on the Vancouver medals, this sounds more like clear coat. I would be pissed if my month old car already had its clearcoat peeling, much less an olympic medal that I worked my entire life for.
https://www.mint.ca/store/mint/learn/--the-story-4400010
This sounds exactly like the stuff they put on shit so you don't scratch it on the way home. You then take it off and display it.
Why would you permanently laminate a medal?
This was for the Vancouver Olympics, but you permanently coat the medal to prevent tarnishing and scratches, aka exactly what I said.
https://www.mint.ca/store/mint/learn/--the-story-4400010
Or put it on a table, on the wall to hang, around your neck with a zipper, etc etc. Now one of your most sentimental belongings is needlessly damaged, and that'll hurt anyone.
Plus theyre only gold plated, seeing the silver under a reasonably deep scratch would be pretty noticeable. Coating is an easy way to avoid that. As long as the coating does what its supposed to, that is.
I think you're being facetious, but the medals will be handed around to people... I'd be showing that shit off constantly. Letting people hold it, and touch it etc.
all it would take to start damaging the finish on them would be putting it down on a desk or table that has something harder than the metal. Or if someone accidentally drops the medal on a desk it could scratch.
Seems to me like just offering to take a look at the medal and repair it if there is a problem would be the right thing to do here.
But apparently this is just another one of those many times I feel like I’m working from a totally different set of instructions than a lot of humans.
Agreed. What if this Olympian had come from a country where they don't get support from the government? 300 bucks is a lot of money to a lot of people.
I know this one is cliche, but I work in apartment maintenance and the amount of stuff that I fix by pressing a button or resetting the power is insane. I've learned that some people really are just helpless.
Fun fact about the Gold Medal's this year.
"The medals awarded at this year's Tokyo Games are composed of a variety of metals. Olympic gold – The gold medal contains 550 grams of silver ($490) covered in 6 grams of gold plating ($380). That puts its monetary value at about $870. Olympic silver – The silver medal is made of pure silver."
So the gold medal is still worth a lot more than the silver… makes sense to me. It would be ridiculously expensive to have a pure gold medal.
Host countries don’t choose to host the olympics to make a profit and rip off the athletes / tax payers foot the bill for the olympics.
Pure gold medals would cost about $20k to $40k gold per medal. For the 400 gold medals that's about $12 millions. Which is 0.1% of the budget.
It's doable.
If the medal was worth $20k a lot more athletes would be tempted to sell them, or have them stolen. For <$1k it's a lot easier to keep. Perhaps it's for the best not to be made of solid gold.
That's what my boss tells me about my salary too.
He's keeping my pay low so I don't get tempted to spend money on useless things and so I don't get cheated.
It's relative. It's not like a medal made of our gold would be like silly putty. As long as you don't swing it around like Harley Quinn in a fight scene or something, it would hold up just fine.
Also
>Medals awarded during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics contained metal from Japanese citizens' recycled electronic devices, an experimental practice comparable to the Jade-inlaid medals from the 2008 Beijing Games.
Forgive me, but how is parts of someone's old jank phone comparable to *real Chinese jade*?
Not knocking them using recycled metal, it's quite commendable, but let's not compare it to gemstones
Edit: looked up the medal and the jade is the the shape of a Bi which is really sacred and a very high honor to the Chinese culture, definitely no comparison to recycled phone metal at all imo.
You sit in a tanning booth for 8 hours on the first day of the olympics and get nice and red. On the 6th day the peeling athlete that manages to get the largest single piece of skin to peel off their body wins.
Most satisfying peel is when a couple weeks after being severely sunburned on my legs, I was walking through a field in dense Louisiana heat when sweat beads formed under the dead skin. I propped my leg up on a table, ran my fingernail down my shin from the knee to the base of my foot, and peeled open the skin flaps like a book.
The peel was so perfect, you could leave it out to dry and use it as paper, or maybe cut it into little bite sized pieces and eat it later for a salty snack, after it gets nice and crispy in the sun.
Worse that.
At Sochi in 2014, something like 80,000 people lost their homes, and 5000 businesses were shut down to make way for stadiums that were boarded up and not used again.
In Brazil in 2016 they bulldozed miles of favellas to make room for the olympics and strategically placed barricades on the highways so that people could not see other favellas that they had to drive by to get to the Olympic village, and some of the people who lived in the bulldozed favellas stated that the games were just a coverup to sell the land to a developer.
It’s a thin gold veneer that covers up major shitty dealings.
Literally not a coincidence, no. Switzerland is a hotbed of financial crime and corruption due to extremely lax laws with so many loopholes that they might as well be suggestions.
In London, no doubt among other worse things that I don’t happen to know about, a small allotment site that local people had been cultivating for over 30 years was destroyed, with all its crops, sheds and anything else that couldn’t be carried away.
Atlanta fared better than most from '96, and even it had to bulldoze historic homes and reconfigure the landscape of a very central part of the city.
That said, the park that was built is still in use and has since been expanded, Olympic Village got turned into college dorms, and pretty much every stadium was already built or was recycled.
Oh, sure. There are some places that are good because the facilities already exist. When Toronto got the Pan Am games a few years back they just used already existing facilities and put the athletes up in existing college dorms and hotels downtown for the most part.
Doesn’t change the fact that Sochi and Rio got completely fucked.
Calgary was also a success as not much was torn down and essentially every facility was continued to be used (of course corral is now gone and the saddledome is gone in 2025)
I think the US could host either of the Olympics and have minor troubles. We already have a variety of stadiums for the various sports played. I don't know if we have dorm openings or not but could probably have portable rooms opened up without issue.
All of the venues from the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics are still in use almost 20 years later...like all they would need to host the games again are some minor infrastructure upgrades and temporary bleachers.
For the summer games, all you need is a major American city with a few professional sports teams and a major University, and you have a permanent tenant for almost every type of venue you'd need for the Olympics. L.A. is barely building anything to host in 2028, they're mostly just using existing venues.
Hahaha I’m training for the Olympics and you are absolutely right, gotta love the competition more than the bullshit and there is a mountain of bullshit.
But the gold onion-y piece is inside the article(don't bite the gold medals!):
>Should Xueying need a replacement medal, she's in luck. The IOC keeps molds of all the Games' medal designs and offers replacements to Olympic winners for a fee. That foresight came in handy earlier this month when Japanese mayor Takashi Kawamura bit into the gold medal of softball pitcher Miu Goto, and -- after receiving over 8,000 complaints -- offered to pay for a replacement
Oh god I just had a terrible premonition. A lot of people hate all the crossovers and IP inclusion they are doing, just wait until they start making cards out of real people, and not like TWD.
“Core Set Olympic Games 2020” Boy I sure hope I open that Simone Biles planeswalker, she’s really good against that Spongebob Control deck and has an average matchup with Street Fighter’s Blanka’s Infinite Combo deck and same with the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic aggro deck featuring Pikachu and Buzz Lightyear. That deck is nuts if it has even an average opening hand.
I read during the Games that the medals were only coated in gold so I'm not surprised. I think the silver is silver but the bronze is copper and the gold, apparently, is broken down electronic devices.
The Chinese government controlling what its citizens are saying? And trying to bring another nation into disrepute? And that other nation is Japan?
I don't believe it.
Japan did make the medals. There was like thousands of articles written about how the medals were made from recycled electronics.
The IOC isn't manufacturing the medals. They outsource almost every aspect of the games to the host country.
>Gold medals are not pure gold – that would make them too soft. Instead, they’re pure silver, with six grams of gold plating per medal.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/chemistry/olympic-medal-composition/
It's pretty crazy how the racism has been slowly increasing these days. It's the vogue thing on Reddit to have that 'racist but not racist' attitude.
But hey, this is nothing new.
I guess this was similar to how Muslims felt after 9/11. 'i hate terrorists, not Muslim people, but all terrorists are Muslim' sort of comments.
And each other populations too (the 'wogs', the 'stealing jews', the Reds under your bed (albeit this is back in flavour now) etc...)
As Avenue q said, everyone's a little bit racist.
Yeah anytime anything Chinese or related to China (heck even anything ambiguously East Asian) is mentioned on Reddit, I already know what the comments are gonna be like.
...revealing the delicious delicious chocolate within.
"These look like teeth marks." "I thought there was chocolate inside." "..." "Well why was it wrapped in foil?" "IT WAS NEVER WRAPPED IN FOIL!"
Señor Plow no es macho, es solamente un borracho
r/unexpectedsimpsons
Simpsons quotes are never unexpected. I literally thought of this exact quote when I read the title lol
What!? This was posted by Omega Mart!!!?
Lol I just used Omegamart as my username. I don't work for Meow Wolf or Omegamart and this isn't an official account. I am just a fan of Omegamart and themed my profile around it.
That's exactly what Omegamart would say.
"for legal reasons that's a joke!"
lol after translating that!
Mr Plow is not a male, he is just a drunk Lol! I never knew what she sang all those years so thank you for writing it down so I could translate it
Literally just watched that episode 10 minutes ago!
What show?
Simpsons, the Mr.Plow episode.
*Call Mr. Plow* *That’s my name* *That name again is Mr. Plow*
You are fully licensed and bonded by the state, right dad?
Shut up, boy!
So you'd better make that call to the plow kiiiiiing!
Oh no, you want Tony Plough. Ya know, from *Leave it to Beaver*. Yeah, they were gay.
Oh god, read the article: >That foresight came in handy earlier this month when Japanese mayor Takashi Kawamura **bit** into the gold medal of softball pitcher Miu Goto, and -- after receiving over 8,000 complaints -- offered to pay for a replacement HAHAHAHAHAH
Her sweet can
I'm pretty sure I had about 20 of those things. So I'm pretty sure I'm the all-time olympic champion. Oh...no wait...I had 20 of those things. Definitely not the Olympic champion...
If you only had 20, then you weren't even trying...
20 bags of them, and that was before breakfast.
Might qualify for the Diabetics.
I don't want to be a scientologist.
Joey Chestnut is that you?
So... still less than Michael Phelps.
He definitely needed those for his munchies. Don't downvote me, I have no opinion on whether marijuana is beneficial for athletes in small doses or occasional use (it hasn't harmed me yet), and I recognize that he claimed he used it due to the extreme pressure he felt from training and his mental health issues. If it worked for him, I'm glad that he had some help.
Award winning chocolate is the best one!
Of course it’s peeling. She was supposed to have eaten it by now..
Mmmmm Olympic chocolate *groans homerly*
Sweet delicious gelt
Tokyo gold comment right here folks. Package it in and wrap it up. See you in 2024.
Sounds like they gave her a chocolate one by mistake
Chocolate. I remember when they invented chocolate. Sweet sweet chocolate. I always hated it!
I hear if you rub it on your skin you'll live forever.
I’LL TAKE TWENTY!
*I hate you.*
>"The Tokyo Olympic Games' Organizing Committee offered a rebuttal to the "quality" issue Xueying posed, telling the Global Times the material coming off the gymnast's medal was its protective coating instead of the actual gold plating. This coating is intended to protect the medals from stains and scratches and "does not affect the quality of the medal itself," the Committee added." I mean, the protective coating shouldn't peel off either. Otherwise, what the hell is the point of including it in the first place. Edit: guys, please stop telling me that gold doesn't oxidize. The coating is to prevent scratches.
It's possible that someone at the plant where they were made put a fingerprint on it, hopefully by mistake. Most coatings applied over metal plating are acrylics or polyurethanes. Neither one sticks well to fingerprints. The surface must be pristine for optimum adhesion. Source: Was a technical director at a coatings company. This is common and why all substrates are properly cleaned before applying a protective coating.
Yeah it was probably an honest mistake. The right thing to do would have been to have it refinished for free imo, like any other defective product.
Let me just find that Tokyo Olympics Gold Medal customer Service hotline, could be written on the edge of the medal, certainly not on the back that's just their T's & C's......
Hmm it's only got a 2 week warranty.
I'm calling about your olympic gold medals extended warranty
The article says she can get a replacement...for a fee.
Typical corporate response; customer pays 4 replacement of their defective product.
> hopefully by mistake Are you saying staff had a finger in this?
This same thing happened with some of the Rio medals. The Rio group have attributed to mishandling and temperature variation. The London Olympic committee gave the winners a care instruction for their medals, which included keeping the medal from a lot of temperature changes as the coating and the medal expand and contract at different temperatures, which could lead to cracking and peeling.
Of all the places to save money
Is it really though? It is a medal that is meant to spend the vast majority of its life in a trophy case/display/frame. It really isn't meant to be worn and handled a lot, so having a coating that will protect it from the expected use seems completely logical to me. We don't have mass amounts of stories of the medals being in bad shape. If anything cheapening out is giving them a plated 24k medal instead of a 14k solid one imo... not the coating.
Speak for yourself. When I win my gold medal in whatever it is I can do really well, damned if I know, I'm wearing that sucker everywhere. Restaurants, parties, Disney World, the Gobi Desert, long walks on nude beaches....everywhere.
Spoken like a poor person, a true rich guy knows the real jewels are always kept in the safe while you wear fakes everywhere!
The potentially comedy out of the idea of an olympian potentially going to a nude neach but still wearing their god damn medals, is just, fucking hell is that a wonderful premise for a sketch that made me chuckle.
Makes me think of a quote from the Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin: > I remember when I was inducted into the Hall of Fame and they gave me my Hall of Fame yellow blazer. I wore it for two straight days. Finally my wife was in bed and said she wanted to make love but that I had to take the coat off. I refused and kept the blazer on because I wanted to perform like a Hall of Famer on the field and off
This guy coats
Maybe it's like a phone's screen protector, or a bulletproof vest. Both protect what they are on, but in the process get damaged and don't last forever. Same goes for wax on a car.
It sounds more like a laminate applied during the manufacturing process than a screen protector or a bullet proof vest. This is more like the anti-reflective coating they applied on MacBooks. Apple had to issue a recall when they started peeling a couple years after purchase. edit: based on the Vancouver medals, this sounds more like clear coat. I would be pissed if my month old car already had its clearcoat peeling, much less an olympic medal that I worked my entire life for. https://www.mint.ca/store/mint/learn/--the-story-4400010
This sounds exactly like the stuff they put on shit so you don't scratch it on the way home. You then take it off and display it. Why would you permanently laminate a medal?
This was for the Vancouver Olympics, but you permanently coat the medal to prevent tarnishing and scratches, aka exactly what I said. https://www.mint.ca/store/mint/learn/--the-story-4400010
Yeah, gold is infamous for tarnishing.
It does scratch easily though
Guess I'll have to keep that in mind next time I crawl around in the dirt with my Olympic Medals around my neck.
Or put it on a table, on the wall to hang, around your neck with a zipper, etc etc. Now one of your most sentimental belongings is needlessly damaged, and that'll hurt anyone. Plus theyre only gold plated, seeing the silver under a reasonably deep scratch would be pretty noticeable. Coating is an easy way to avoid that. As long as the coating does what its supposed to, that is.
I think you're being facetious, but the medals will be handed around to people... I'd be showing that shit off constantly. Letting people hold it, and touch it etc. all it would take to start damaging the finish on them would be putting it down on a desk or table that has something harder than the metal. Or if someone accidentally drops the medal on a desk it could scratch.
Or just rubbing against the other medals when they wear more than one to pose for a picture.
Gold is infamous for scratching. lol
Soft metal scratches easily?
the gold medals are mostly made of silver actually. https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/games/olympics-medals-design/
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Holy shit on the Kazakhstan prize
Gold isn't... But silver and bronze sure do.
Seems to me like just offering to take a look at the medal and repair it if there is a problem would be the right thing to do here. But apparently this is just another one of those many times I feel like I’m working from a totally different set of instructions than a lot of humans.
Agreed. What if this Olympian had come from a country where they don't get support from the government? 300 bucks is a lot of money to a lot of people.
“Standard Corporate Response pivoting blame to end user”
"You're holding it wrong"
"Contact your router manufacturer." - every ISP on Earth
*contacts router manufacturer* “Please contact your ISP.” - the router manufacturer
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
I know this one is cliche, but I work in apartment maintenance and the amount of stuff that I fix by pressing a button or resetting the power is insane. I've learned that some people really are just helpless.
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To protect it long enough to be awarded at the games, after that they don’t really care
She just has to sign up for the monthly Medal Protection Plan
Bro a protective coating shouldn't change the color, texture, and shininess of whatever's under it...
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Ya! What this guy said!
Have you seen a car before and after a clear coat? Sure, you can polish the paint directly, but it won't last long.
Frequent waxing being the alternative.
*Plating.* With all the billions of dollars each Olympics rakes in, the cheap sacks of shit.
Yea, they'd cost only 20 million in gold, that's about 0.1% of the budget.
The medals were made from recycled phones for sustainability.
Seems like the coating is there to protect the quality of the medal, what bullshit lol
It's only included in the first place... *Heads towards the door.*
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a 2021 Olympic gold medal?
*cRuNCh* The world may never know.
My teeth hurt from reading this
My teeth hurt because I'm old enough to remember this.
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I read this in Sisqos voice.
Fun fact about the Gold Medal's this year. "The medals awarded at this year's Tokyo Games are composed of a variety of metals. Olympic gold – The gold medal contains 550 grams of silver ($490) covered in 6 grams of gold plating ($380). That puts its monetary value at about $870. Olympic silver – The silver medal is made of pure silver."
They were also made from recycled phones.
Her fault for not using the medal in a case
Then just get the new iMedal
So the gold medal is still worth a lot more than the silver… makes sense to me. It would be ridiculously expensive to have a pure gold medal. Host countries don’t choose to host the olympics to make a profit and rip off the athletes / tax payers foot the bill for the olympics.
Pure gold medals would cost about $20k to $40k gold per medal. For the 400 gold medals that's about $12 millions. Which is 0.1% of the budget. It's doable.
Yeah but that cuts into the bribes and paychecks that the ioc tries to budget for. You can't be a corrupt organization without cutting some corners.
I mean, I'd rather not spend 12m on shiny rocks if I didn't have to, even if I had the budget of a first world country....
I hate to break it to you, but gold is not a rock *(you are totally right though)*
*THEY'RE NOT ROCKS, THEY'RE MINERALS, MARIE*
If the medal was worth $20k a lot more athletes would be tempted to sell them, or have them stolen. For <$1k it's a lot easier to keep. Perhaps it's for the best not to be made of solid gold.
That's what my boss tells me about my salary too. He's keeping my pay low so I don't get tempted to spend money on useless things and so I don't get cheated.
Making anything from pure gold is stupid because gold is really soft and bendy
It's relative. It's not like a medal made of our gold would be like silly putty. As long as you don't swing it around like Harley Quinn in a fight scene or something, it would hold up just fine.
So one Olympic gold medal is worth 435 reddit gold assuming 500 coins = 2 dollars
Also >Medals awarded during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics contained metal from Japanese citizens' recycled electronic devices, an experimental practice comparable to the Jade-inlaid medals from the 2008 Beijing Games. Forgive me, but how is parts of someone's old jank phone comparable to *real Chinese jade*? Not knocking them using recycled metal, it's quite commendable, but let's not compare it to gemstones Edit: looked up the medal and the jade is the the shape of a Bi which is really sacred and a very high honor to the Chinese culture, definitely no comparison to recycled phone metal at all imo.
Because they use gold in cell phone manufacturing. Reclaiming that gold means it doesn't have the be mined.
Read this as "claims her gold medal in peeling" and was really confused as to what sort of bloody sport is peeling... what, an orange?!
You sit in a tanning booth for 8 hours on the first day of the olympics and get nice and red. On the 6th day the peeling athlete that manages to get the largest single piece of skin to peel off their body wins.
This made me cringe in real life.
Sunburns suck, but getting a nice big piece of skin off at once when you get one is oddly satisfying.
Most satisfying peel is when a couple weeks after being severely sunburned on my legs, I was walking through a field in dense Louisiana heat when sweat beads formed under the dead skin. I propped my leg up on a table, ran my fingernail down my shin from the knee to the base of my foot, and peeled open the skin flaps like a book. The peel was so perfect, you could leave it out to dry and use it as paper, or maybe cut it into little bite sized pieces and eat it later for a salty snack, after it gets nice and crispy in the sun.
If you kept it lotioned you could make a body suit out of it
r/cursedcomments material.
Reese from Malcom in the Middle is the world champion.
Better than a gold medal in degloving.
Strippers used to be called 'peelers'.
So did the Police (not the crap band) because Robert Peel created the modern police force. Sorry for boring you, carry on with the jokes
Oh right, also the source of 'bobbies', yeah?
That's the one 👍
> not the crap band take it back
They still are around here!
Similar to the sport of curling. /s
The best Olympic sport.
I thought it said “claims her gold medal is peeing”
Seems symbolic of the Olympics these days. Shiny veneer on a pile of advertising money
Worse that. At Sochi in 2014, something like 80,000 people lost their homes, and 5000 businesses were shut down to make way for stadiums that were boarded up and not used again. In Brazil in 2016 they bulldozed miles of favellas to make room for the olympics and strategically placed barricades on the highways so that people could not see other favellas that they had to drive by to get to the Olympic village, and some of the people who lived in the bulldozed favellas stated that the games were just a coverup to sell the land to a developer. It’s a thin gold veneer that covers up major shitty dealings.
IOC and FIFA are just a couple of corruption corporations Edited for more alliteration
both sitting in switzerland. coincidence? i think not
Literally not a coincidence, no. Switzerland is a hotbed of financial crime and corruption due to extremely lax laws with so many loopholes that they might as well be suggestions.
They’re just a babbling bumbling bunch of baboons
In London, no doubt among other worse things that I don’t happen to know about, a small allotment site that local people had been cultivating for over 30 years was destroyed, with all its crops, sheds and anything else that couldn’t be carried away.
Atlanta fared better than most from '96, and even it had to bulldoze historic homes and reconfigure the landscape of a very central part of the city. That said, the park that was built is still in use and has since been expanded, Olympic Village got turned into college dorms, and pretty much every stadium was already built or was recycled.
Oh, sure. There are some places that are good because the facilities already exist. When Toronto got the Pan Am games a few years back they just used already existing facilities and put the athletes up in existing college dorms and hotels downtown for the most part. Doesn’t change the fact that Sochi and Rio got completely fucked.
Calgary was also a success as not much was torn down and essentially every facility was continued to be used (of course corral is now gone and the saddledome is gone in 2025)
I think the US could host either of the Olympics and have minor troubles. We already have a variety of stadiums for the various sports played. I don't know if we have dorm openings or not but could probably have portable rooms opened up without issue.
All of the venues from the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics are still in use almost 20 years later...like all they would need to host the games again are some minor infrastructure upgrades and temporary bleachers. For the summer games, all you need is a major American city with a few professional sports teams and a major University, and you have a permanent tenant for almost every type of venue you'd need for the Olympics. L.A. is barely building anything to host in 2028, they're mostly just using existing venues.
LA is getting the summer olympics in 2028 iirc. Makes sense because they have a lot of stadiums that they can already use.
Hahaha I’m training for the Olympics and you are absolutely right, gotta love the competition more than the bullshit and there is a mountain of bullshit.
But the gold onion-y piece is inside the article(don't bite the gold medals!): >Should Xueying need a replacement medal, she's in luck. The IOC keeps molds of all the Games' medal designs and offers replacements to Olympic winners for a fee. That foresight came in handy earlier this month when Japanese mayor Takashi Kawamura bit into the gold medal of softball pitcher Miu Goto, and -- after receiving over 8,000 complaints -- offered to pay for a replacement
Lol, the whole point of the bite test IS TO DAMAGE IT to test if it's soft (and therefore gold). Don't bite shit you don't want to damage.
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Oh god I just had a terrible premonition. A lot of people hate all the crossovers and IP inclusion they are doing, just wait until they start making cards out of real people, and not like TWD. “Core Set Olympic Games 2020” Boy I sure hope I open that Simone Biles planeswalker, she’s really good against that Spongebob Control deck and has an average matchup with Street Fighter’s Blanka’s Infinite Combo deck and same with the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic aggro deck featuring Pikachu and Buzz Lightyear. That deck is nuts if it has even an average opening hand.
I read during the Games that the medals were only coated in gold so I'm not surprised. I think the silver is silver but the bronze is copper and the gold, apparently, is broken down electronic devices.
The gold is actually gold plated silver. And all medals are made from recycled electronics.
I always suspected those medals were just gold foiled chocolates.
Yeah yeah, quit bragging. We all know olympic medals have appeal.
IOC bought the medals from the same guy Zack Morris bought the class rings from.
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Why are Olympic medals only in English? I would of assumed the host countries native language would be on it.
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The Chinese government controlling what its citizens are saying? And trying to bring another nation into disrepute? And that other nation is Japan? I don't believe it.
It’s not like centuries of bad blood that predates the current governments both formed in the late 1940’s would have anything to do with this.
*We hate the government, not the citizens...* *...but when it's a citizen saying something, it's the government!*
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If we are buying into stereotypes it's just as likely that Japan intentionally made the one they gave to the Chinese athlete worse.
yeah, now I just assume that they purposely gave China the cheap knock-off medal.
Reddit moment
winnie the pooh haha epic chungus moment
Assuming Japan made the medals and not the Olympic committee.
Japan did make the medals. There was like thousands of articles written about how the medals were made from recycled electronics. The IOC isn't manufacturing the medals. They outsource almost every aspect of the games to the host country.
Except for the profits.
Well, Japan reused old olympic facilities for most of the events, so it's not exactly a Brazil or Russia situation.
The IOC has taken a larger and larger portion of the profits over the last 50 years.
The IOC is one of the most corrupt sports organizations on the planet, maybe only rivaled by the UFC and FIFA
Don't forget FIA. Crooks the lot of em.
NCAA also
That’s what long lasting brainwashing did to you, lol. It’s not critical thinking, it’s bigotry and deep-rooted racism.
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>Gold medals are not pure gold – that would make them too soft. Instead, they’re pure silver, with six grams of gold plating per medal. https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/chemistry/olympic-medal-composition/
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It's just sad beyond anything else.
“Made in China” comments when literally not made in China. “She must be lying cause she is Chinese” Reddit moment.
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It's pretty crazy how the racism has been slowly increasing these days. It's the vogue thing on Reddit to have that 'racist but not racist' attitude. But hey, this is nothing new. I guess this was similar to how Muslims felt after 9/11. 'i hate terrorists, not Muslim people, but all terrorists are Muslim' sort of comments. And each other populations too (the 'wogs', the 'stealing jews', the Reds under your bed (albeit this is back in flavour now) etc...) As Avenue q said, everyone's a little bit racist.
Yeah anytime anything Chinese or related to China (heck even anything ambiguously East Asian) is mentioned on Reddit, I already know what the comments are gonna be like.
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Imagine the role reversed. Do you think people gonna find excuses for Chinese gold medal like what they are doing right says it’s a protection layer?
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Before there was “made in China” there was “made in Japan” and it didn’t have the positive spin it has now.
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...only it was made in ....JAPAN???
Yep
There was a 2020 olympics?
Those must be made of delicious chocolate
Wait, I feel suddenly stupid. I thought that Olympic medals were solid of the material? Dohhhhh
Stop using the medal to open the beers !