This is FTW Explains: The Olympics. Have you noticed athletes continuing to bite their medals? Even in 2024? Here’s an Olympics edition which will hopefully answer a question you might have.

While posing for photos, Olympians are urged to bite down on their medals — an iconic pose that often makes it to front pages, according to the Olympics website. "It's become an obsession with ...

In front of the flashing lights, many winners grab their medals and take a bite. It takes years of grueling training and competition to nab gold at the Olympics. So why do the winners immediately ...

Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez bites the medal she was presented in recognition of her service as commencement speaker ...

There are only so many things to do with a medal, and the excited champions are usually appeasing requests from the gallery of Olympic photographers when they bite down on their booty. This ...

Basically, if you took a bite into it and you could see your ... Of course, the gold medals awarded at the Olympics aren’t actually solid gold – it’s more of a compound of around 90 per ...

These days medals are required to contain just 6 grams of gold, which means they mostly consist of silver and a little copper. We investigated a little deeper into why athletes still bite Olympic ...