1912 Summer Olympics – TheCount.com https://thecount.com You Heard About It On TheCount.com! Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:32:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.9 https://thecount.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-golden-mic-copy-32x32.jpg 1912 Summer Olympics – TheCount.com https://thecount.com 32 32 Rio Olympic Silver Medals Made From Recycled X-Ray Plates Gold Medals Not So Golden https://thecount.com/2016/08/16/are-olympics-gold-medals-made-of-gold/ https://thecount.com/2016/08/16/are-olympics-gold-medals-made-of-gold/#respond Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:31:22 +0000 http://thecount.com/?p=257089 One would assume that Olympics medals handed out during the summer games in Rio are actually made of gold, silver, and bronze.. Guess again. The reality is more complicated. Because distributing pure gold medals would be cost prohibitive, the actual gold medals are made mostly of silver with a thin layer of real gold bonded […]

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