Topic: Why do Olympic gold medal winners bite their medals?

Anonymous A started this discussion 10 years ago #54,874

Does anyone know?

chili dog !!81dzJNNYL joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 4 minutes later[^] [v] #712,201

To make sure it's real gold

Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 12 minutes later, 17 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #712,208

they are dumb and think it's choclcate

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #712,222

@712,201 (chili dog !!81dzJNNYL)
Are Olympic athletes known to have gold testing skill?

@previous (Sheila LaBoof)
This I can believe

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #712,226

http://firsttoknow.com/why-olympic-athletes-bite-medal/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/84550/why-do-olympians-bite-their-medals

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/08/12/why-olympians-bite-their-medals/

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/news/a39873/why-olympians-bite-medals/

Sheila LaBoof replied with this 10 years ago, 3 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #712,271

I recall the TV used to have movies from decades ago where some fucker would bite coins to test them. Maybe originally atheletes mimicked that, and later athletes mimicked the earlier atheletes.

Minichan