Winning an Olympic medal is like a dream come true for any athlete who start a sport and work hard for living that dream once in his/her life. Since i also tried but it seems i’m better to write and make others understand rather to try and force myself in a sports. Well !.
There are actually many reason but the most obvious one is that its a trendy pose to strike infront of the shutterbugs.
Most important part
Olympic gold medals are not completely gold since the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and it was estimated that the cost of making the medals for the London 2012 Olympics would have been $40 million if they had been pure gold. Olympic medals are 1.34 percent gold and the rest is recycled silver
Now when we know that its not a pure piece of yellow metal, let’s look at all those probable reasons why an athlete bites his/her medal.
1- Biting a gold coin was supposedly a test, given the comparative softness of the metal, of whether it was real or another harder metal with a gold plating. It can just be a symbolic gesture by an athlete saying “Yay, i have the gold”
2- Our teeth are the only parts that can completely crush a metal that has inter-molecular strength under its control. Same way, if we are able to win a goal that might be under control, we grab it as ours and indicate the situation using the teeth that we also deserve the medal that is under our control.
3- In a scientific way, some people believe that biting the medal is an act that will make us remember the situation and motivate us to win more.
4- Its a weird one but it is like a money making tool for media to sell their photos and that’s why they ask the athletes to pose with biting their medal.
“It’s become an obsession with the photographers,” David Wallechinsky, president of the International Society of Olympic Historians, told CNN. “I think they look at it as an iconic shot, as something that you can probably sell. I don’t think it’s something the athletes would probably do on their own.” He added that it’s especially popular among swimmers.
5- During the olden days players used to check the originality of gold and silver medals by biting it and the trend has continued till the present days. The material is not purely gold and silver but it is like a representation of a trend which has flourished from ages.
In Asia
The Asian athletes don’t believe in biting the medal and they choose to kiss their medals which is also a great way to showcase your success, atleast it will save your teeths. Right?
Finishing it off
The reasons may get confusing to you and it might not get you to the conclusive answer but in the present times it has become just a matter of posing for the cameras
