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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[For much more information, have a look at the Royal Canadian Mint's web site where you can see all the work that went into actually creating these.  Very cool...<br><br><a href="http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/learn/medals-4400016" rel="nofollow">http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/learn/medals-4400016</a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gord Warner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 7:55AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[That was really great.   Thank you for the link.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Beergoddess]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 6:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[Interesting. If these numbers are correct, a Gold Medal actually has more silver in it than a Silver Medal. . . (Rigel - are you sure the silver medal isn't actually 509g of copper covered by 41g of silver?) <br><br>$3.00 for a Bronze sounds cheap - but try buying one for $3.00. . . ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cooper]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 10:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[A gold medal is made of silver!   No wonder the Olympics are such a farce.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[k]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 2:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[the silver metal is an alloy of silver and copper.....like sterling silver it is 92% pure silver plus another metal (usually copper)to give it strength .  it's not one metal covered by another.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[epirher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 9:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Epirher: I don't know. The article says 509g Cu and 41g Ag. That's a long way from 92% pure silver. . . ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cooper]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 11:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[Of course the Olympic Medal is worth far more than the metal it contains. It's the human achievement that gives boththe medal and the metal it contains their value. There is no other commpelling reason why one metal should be worth more than another.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 3rd 2010 2:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[I know that we admire the athletes for their years-long quest for those medals.  I know that its not the money that counts, but the honour.  I know that earning a gold practically guarantees the recipient huge income from endorsement and appearances for a few years.  I also know that the Winter Olympic games 2010 generated billions of dollars in revenues and the winning athletes deserve 90% GOLD and SILVER -- not thin plate!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hoxsie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 10:32AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[Here.  Here. <br><br>They should be smaller, but solid gold.  They are ugly, oversized and cheap looking.<br><br>db]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DavidBeers]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 5:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[The Nobel Prize is the only medal I know of that's actually made of solid gold.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[William]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 5:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[You are right it is a shame that a Gold medal has more silver than Gold.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 11:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[you are so right ...I for one quit watching years ago once they started to allow american pro athletes participate and started to drug test everyone except those organisers committee members and etc....and with the added political agendas or personal issues made political it really has taken away from the once specialness of the games for me at least......]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[hotrodqd]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 3rd 2010 12:10AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well now how much did the winter games cost the US taxpayer when it was all over?  Maybe we should just make all of our own medals and give it to the participants and not have them waste all of our money.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[BP]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 10:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[I really wish they'd come up with Winter Olympic medals that LOOK like medals. The 2006 medals looked like CDs. This year, they looked like oversized potato chips or - dare I say it - "rapper bling." Why can't they just make medals look like medals, like the ones from the Beijing Summer Games? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cooper]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 10:51AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[the medals should be standardized on the front facia; and then unique to the year/locale on the rear...don't you think...?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul S. Bottone]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 3:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Cooper, before you make such an opinionated judgment about the medals, perhaps you should understand that there was actually a reason why the medals looked as they did during these Olympics.  They were created from recycled electronic parts, and this clip illustrates well the reason for their design:<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Suzanne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 9:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the link didn't post.  Let's try again:<br><a href="http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/2/3/medal-gear-turning-electronics-into-olympic-gold--2" rel="nofollow">http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/2/3/medal-gear-turning-electronics-into-olympic-gold--2</a><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Suzanne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 10:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Suzanne: Opinionated judgment? Sorry if my opinion - to which I'm entitled - seems to offend you. But, I don't care. Just because they're made of recycled computer parts - which I think is totally cool - doesn't mean they can't look like medals instead of snacks. It doesn't matter where the metal came from - melted computer parts, old headlights, teeth, whatever - it could be formed (forged, cast, stamped, rolled, etc.) into something that reflects the significance of the award. Thanks for the interesting link. Like I said, I think the recycling angle is great. I just think the shape of the medals themselves leaves a lot to be desired. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cooper]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 10:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[Cooper, did you even watch the video?  The designers referenced the topography of the Vancouver area when shaping the medal.  I would think that the Winter Olympic athletes would appreciate that attention to detail, but obviously you are not an Olympic athlete, so the meaning is lost on you.  And yes, of course you are entitled to your opinion, but I tire of reading such comments as yours that compare the design to "rapper bling," when there was obviously a lot more thought put into it!  That is where the "judgment" part of my comment came in!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Suzanne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 11:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How Much is a Gold Medal Really Worth?]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2010/03/02/how-much-is-a-gold-medal-really-worth/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Suzanne: Because I don't appreciate a bizarre attempt to make a medal look vaguely like a 3D topo map it's obvious that I'm not an Olympic athlete? Wow. A leap like that certainly makes YOU a candidate for some kind of Olympics . . .   ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cooper]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 2nd 2010 11:51PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>