Olympic medals

[gsh]

When did they change the olympic medals to be something with a hole in the center?

Comments

[dwildchil.livejournal.com]

They're giving away donuts?! Damn! I knew I should have been a gymnast! *pout*

[draakken.livejournal.com]

if you were a gymnast you probably wouldn't be allowed to eat a donut, or even a munchkin.

[gsh]

I had always thought that Mary Lou Retton enjoyed a donut or two.

[geminigirl]

IIRC, each host city designs it's own medals to reflect their own games, so Salt Lake City looked different from Athens, and different from Torino, and Beijing and Vancouver will be different as well.

It's to represent

[sierra-victor.livejournal.com]

the plaza in the middle of most good Italian cities.

I doubt you'll see medals like that again anytime soon.

S_V

[dckermit.livejournal.com]

I thought they were giving away DVDs instead of medals this year.

[gsh]

I wondered if they were the same form factor of DVD's.

[rapha.livejournal.com]

they're gettin cheap. Put a hole in the medal , and that's that much less you have to pay in gold and silver (and isn't gold $$ up really high right now?)