Yep, it's true, they contain only a tiny amount of gold.
Check out the link below - British newspaper The Daily Mail recently ran an article about what the medals are made of.
They are not made of solid gold, because that would be too expensive. Each medal would probably cost over $30,000. Plus gold is a very soft metal. You could bend a solid gold gold medal with your bare hands.
The IOC requires that gold medals be at least 92.5% silver, and that they have at least six grams of gold plating. Most Olympic committees usually add slightly more gold that what is required, just to make it look better. The remaining composition of the medal is usually some copper and iridium thrown in.
The rules say there only has to be about 6 grams of gold in the gold medal and most of the rest has to be silver.
No, they have gold in them...just not in the whole thing. Most of it is silver, and the gold covers the outside of them.
I beleive they are silver plated with gold. There was an article on Yahoo last week.
they're made out of a yellow-colored metal
you can get a yellow medal, a metal-colored medal, and a brown medal.
It's still better to get the yellow medal than the metal medal or the brown medal.
You are indeed correct. They are made of other metals, gold being only a tiny percentage.
they are only 2.3%gold it really gay
Is that true that Olympic gold medals are not gold? How dare are they?
