Paris 2024 Olympics shenanigans - The most multicultural Olympics ever.

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'Alright, so these Olympic medals look great when they're brand new,' he says.
'But after letting it sit on my skin with some sweat for a little bit and letting my friends wear it over the weekend,' Huston continues before pausing and flipping the camera to his medal.
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STARS158 said:
'Alright, so these Olympic medals look great when they're brand new,' he says.
'But after letting it sit on my skin with some sweat for a little bit and letting my friends wear it over the weekend,' Huston continues before pausing and flipping the camera to his medal.
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Is it really chipping, or just the bronze oxidizing in a normal fashion? I mean, it's bronze. It's not gonna stay shiny.
If it's some sort of bronze plating on some other metal, like wtf. Bronze is already dirt cheap, plating it would be ridiculous. Just mint it out of bronze to begin with.
But that "chipping" to me looks a bit too rounded for it to be actual chipping, the patterns are more like moisture and slowly oxidizing over the surface.
 
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Bobbobson said:
Looks more like chipping on that photo. Oxidizing bronze would have greenish colour.
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Depends on the type of bronze and patina, I think. I got some bronze medals from my childhood and they didn't get green, just that brownish/goldish bronze color. Bronze statues and roofs get that greenish patina, and I think that's due to sulfur reactions with the copper. I really like the look of certain bronze patinas and wanted to replicate it for some projects, so I tried looking into it. But you mostly get phosphor bronzes for hobbyists, and those are no bueno for getting patina, so it got scrapped a bit...
I still think that's not chipping, and if left alone, the whole medal would turn a more consistent dark. The raised features of the medal are still shiny, and the guy mentioned he let his friends wear it. Those raised features would get more rubbed on, while the other parts would get sweat and moisture on it and not get any rubbing.

/edit: Might have been chlorides that cause green patina, and sulfur was more the brownish colors. I remember I wanted that brownish patina and got liver of sulfur for that.
 
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Meriasek said:
Is it really chipping, or just the bronze oxidizing in a normal fashion? I mean, it's bronze. It's not gonna stay shiny.
If it's some sort of bronze plating on some other metal, like wtf. Bronze is already dirt cheap, plating it would be ridiculous. Just mint it out of bronze to begin with.
But that "chipping" to me looks a bit too rounded for it to be actual chipping, the patterns are more like moisture and slowly oxidizing over the surface.
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I'm no metallurgist but these were the comments on the article:
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Seems there's barely enough copper in there for it to oxidise. It's just cheap.
 
Overly Serious said:
I'm no metallurgist but these were the comments on the article:
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Seems there's barely enough copper in there for it to oxidise. It's just cheap.
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Doesn't seem to be an unreasonable alloy. Making medals is like minting coins, done cold, and anything over 6% tin would be too hard. And it's not like they'd save any significant money on the bronze here, all the bronze alloys are cheap. I can't really find that much on what kind of bronze is most often used in medals, but if there's a coating on the Paris medals I assume it's a clear coat to keep the medals shiny until the ceremony. And you can tell from the original color on the front of the medal that it's a very reddish, rather low tin alloy.
 
Jhonson the Two said:
For maximum islamic content, kiwis should know that some of the old buildings around Seine still throw their waste water directly into the river :shit-eating:
Everyone fucking knew it was a bad idea but for some reason our retarded organisers still decided to make people swim in it. Absolute lunacy.
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Is there a reason this hasn't been at the very least looked at in terms of fixing it? I'm curious why, since it seems like a large oversight or issue, especially in today's environment (lol no pun intended).

Is it because of HOW old it is? I admit as a burger that my definition of old is much different from a Euro's.
 
STARS158 said:
'Alright, so these Olympic medals look great when they're brand new,' he says.
'But after letting it sit on my skin with some sweat for a little bit and letting my friends wear it over the weekend,' Huston continues before pausing and flipping the camera to his medal.
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hope you like biodegradable medals! 😆
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They handed out chinesium medals?
 
spiritofamermaid said:
Is there a reason this hasn't been at the very least looked at in terms of fixing it? I'm curious why, since it seems like a large oversight or issue, especially in today's environment (lol no pun intended).
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Because a. Paris and b. The environmental movement is a scam. Real environmental preservation is clean water, clean air, vlean soil. Preparing environments and biodiversity. Working towards sustainable resource and extraction.
A genuinely environmental Paris would be remediating the outfalls and monitoring ecosystems at various points along and around the river with the aim of getting it gradually cleaned up and specific key indicator species resident again.
The whole environmental movement has been co-opted and perverted by carbon. Fuck the newts, fuck the water, the plebs can swim through sewage, it’s only the carbongod that matters now. You will eat the apples sprayed with 1mcp that are a year old and you will be happy.
I’m a card carrying old hippy green environmentalist who has been recycling and reusing since the seventies and it’s one of my pet peeves about current year. The British water companies collect ESG credits while they pump fucking raw sewage into waterways I once swam in and can no longer do so. I hate them
 
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait just a cotton picking minute.

Break dancing is a fucking Olympic sport now?
 
Meriasek said:
Is it really chipping, or just the bronze oxidizing in a normal fashion? I mean, it's bronze. It's not gonna stay shiny.
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So they'll notice chipping, but not chirping?
Azovka said:
For the one and only time. Breakdancing won't be present at the LA Olympics in 2028.
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Los Angeles is hosting the Olympics in 2028? Holy shit. I cannot wait for that shitshow.
 
I can't wait for the IOC president to proclaim the Paris Olympics the "best games ever".
Otterly said:
Because a. Paris and b. The environmental movement is a scam. Real environmental preservation is clean water, clean air, vlean soil. Preparing environments and biodiversity. Working towards sustainable resource and extraction.
A genuinely environmental Paris would be remediating the outfalls and monitoring ecosystems at various points along and around the river with the aim of getting it gradually cleaned up and specific key indicator species resident again.
The whole environmental movement has been co-opted and perverted by carbon. Fuck the newts, fuck the water, the plebs can swim through sewage, it’s only the carbongod that matters now. You will eat the apples sprayed with 1mcp that are a year old and you will be happy.
I’m a card carrying old hippy green environmentalist who has been recycling and reusing since the seventies and it’s one of my pet peeves about current year. The British water companies collect ESG credits while they pump fucking raw sewage into waterways I once swam in and can no longer do so. I hate them
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Ditto from across the pond. I'd like to say I can't believe that the organizers thought it would be okay to let anyone, much less elite athletes on a world stage, swim in poo water, but considering the current eco-warrior mindset, I totally believe it.
 
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