Is it true, that the medals won in the just finished Chinese Olympics are filled with lead in the centre ?

Question

A man in Beijing, who helped make them.

Answer 1

No idea, would love to find out. Why dun you ask the man in beijing who helped make them?

Answer 2

No it is not true, that is absolute rubbish !!

Each Olympic medal must be at least 70mm across and 6mm thick. The gold and silver medals must contain at least 92.5% silver, and at least 6 grams of 24-carat gold must coat each gold medal. Bronze medals contain copper, zinc, tin and a very small amount of silver.

For the Beijing Olympics the gold came from the BHP Billiton owned Cannington mine site in North West Queensland, Australia, they also provided the silver used for the production of the gold and silver medals. BHP Billiton mine sites in Chile provided the copper for producing the bronze medals.

302 gold medals were made for the Beijing Olympics.

See official website:

http://beijing2008.bhpbilliton.com/news/

The 3,000 medals made for the Olympics and a similar number for the Paralympics were delivered by BHP Billiton, an Olympic sponsor and the world's largest mining company, during an hour-long ceremony near Tiananmen Square.

The Melbourne-based company said the metals were shipped from its mines in Chile and Australia - more than 28 1/2 pounds (13 kilograms) of gold, 2,954 pounds (1,340 kilograms) of silver, and 15,278 pounds (6,930 kilograms) of copper. The medals, which incorporate jade from Qinghai province, were made in China.

http://english.pravda.ru/news/sports/03-...

Answer 3

I heard the center was made of chocolate.

Answer 4

No, in case you haven't seen them a big part of the medal is a jade disk. The bronze medals are copper with jade. The silver ones are silver with jade, and the gold ones are silver, gold covering, and jade.

Answer 5

In the Los Angeles Olympics apparently they were made in China, but the core of the silver medals were copper, and the Gold were Iron Pyrities. I don't think they have rumbled this yet though. I met that bloke in Beijing also. The guy behind the chopsticks billbord selling fortune cookies. He was grinning a lot. He kept pointing, and saying over there, over there. Birds nest. Come see, five dollar.

Answer 6

No, it's filled with radioactive uranium. Best you give your medals back.... wait, too late, looks like your brains have already turned into Tapioca.

Answer 7

they're filled with plutonium and applesauce

Answer 8

No, on NBC Olympics coverage, they told the ins and outs of the medals, gold silver and bronze, and is available on NBCOlympics.com

The centre is gold plated metal.

Answer 9

Of course they are.  You wouldn't win one unless you were in the lead.