Degraded quality of Olympic bronze medal after a week (Nyjah Huston’s (USA Skateboarder)) : interestingasfuck

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 6 points 4 months ago

https://www.lvmh.com/news-lvmh/paris-2024-and-lvmh-unveil-the-outfits-and-medals-trays-for-the-victory-ceremonies

Prooooooobably won't be buying anything from them if their medals fall apart this quickly, haha.

[+] _bcron@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world -5 points 4 months ago

Honestly the first thing I thought too. Wear it for a day and then put it up, man

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[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah but those so valuable POSTERS they get

[+] zaphod@sopuli.xyz -52 points 4 months ago

They deserve it for only "winning" bronze.

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[+] Boinkage@lemmy.world -59 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

US skateboarder learns about oxidization for the first time.

Downvoters: Google brass patina and tell me what that looks like. Olympic "bronze" medals are made of brass. Brass oxidizes. This is oxidization. It's not an inferior product or a hallmark of the cheapness if Olympics, it's a thing that happens to some metals and metal alloys.

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