The 2024 Paris Olympics are drawing to a detailed, with most of its medals having been awarded and GOAT standing having been strengthened (we’re taking a look at you, Simone Biles). However one factor we have been questioning all through is are the Olymics medals stable gold? And even actual gold in any respect?
Gold, silver and bronze Olympics medals all look suitably legit and are clearly very stable, as confirmed by the truth that German Olympian David Moeller broke a tooth whereas biting his silver medal on the 2010 Winter Olympics. Ow.
However are Olympics medals actual gold and the way a lot are they value? Past the priceless everlasting glory, after all.
Jamie Squire
Are Olympic medals actual gold?
Satirically, gold medals are literally required by the Olympic Committee to be made utilizing a minimal of 92.5% pure silver. Nonetheless, gold medals are plated with 6g, so they’re kinda, sorta gold, with them weighing in at 529g.
An Worldwide Olympic Committee spokesperson confirmed this again in a 2021 interview, explaining “The medals for first and second locations shall be of silver of not less than 925–1000 grade; the medal for first place shall be gilded with not less than 6g of pure gold.”
In the meantime, silver medals are primarily gold medals sans the gilding, with them weighing 525g, whereas bronze medals are alloys created from copper, tin and zinc, weighing in at 455g.
What’s particular about Paris Olympic medals?
Every medal given out on the 2024 Paris Olympics accommodates among the unique iron from the Eiffel Tower, a particular tribute to town.
If, like us, you are questioning how they managed that, it is as a result of ever since its completion in 1899, components of the Eiffel Tower’s iron body have been eliminated throughout renovations and modernisation tasks and held onto by Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel.