Why the winners bite their medal(s)?

Question

Just wondering... Somehow... When it's chocolate I can imagine but... Isn't hard? Aren't they? Do they purposely did it to leave tooth mark or something?

Answer 1

To see if the medals are real!!!!!!

Answer 2

It goes back to the gold rush days.  Since gold is a soft metal, they tested it's authenticity by biting into it.

Answer 3

hehe to see if the medal is made from real gold or not, i know strange haha.

Answer 4

It goes back to when folks still did commerce in gold coins.  They would make fake coins out of lead and plate them in gold.  Lead is softer than gold but about as heavy, so they would bit it and if it left marks it was lead and not real.

Answer 5

I reckon they've all been approached by Cadbury for some secret advertising....pfff, that nobody picked that up !

Answer 6

Hoping its chocolate biting into it... realising its not dieing a little more inside ... lol jokes,

If i was in that position i wouldnt belive i just won gold, id bite it to see if its real. Just like when you pinch yourself to see if your dreaming.

Answer 7

they think its still cute to do it not realizing how dumb they look

Answer 8

It's a slight form of bragging, as to say "yeah thats right, it's gold"

Answer 9

way back when the way to be sure gold was gold was to bite it, gold is soft

its just a habitual thing, more for the sake of it than anything

Answer 10

It's a mystery. Why do we breathe? It's a mystery.

Answer 11

Perhaps they will feel like they're dreaming when they won a medal , so a bite on the medals to make sure they're awake and the medal is real and theirs to own?