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    ARE OLYMPIC GOLD METALS MADE OF SOLID GOLD?

    Reading about how Olympic metal winners have to pay TAXES (US) on their metals.


    Too lazy right now look for myself. Decided to let the "pros" at akaQA do it for me.  THX


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    doolittle

    TSC- the US Olympians have to pay taxes if they get a medal (gold, silver, or bronze) because they get $ also
    Colleen

    Moderator
    Right doo but the value of the medal also counts as earnings. The medal becomes part of the tax they must pay.
    doolittle

    My guess- It's Well Worth it to the Athletes! (Im sure they would rather not pay it but I still think they would rather medal and pay rather than not medal at all).
    Colleen

    Moderator
    Well all other athletes in the sports world have to pay taxes on their earnings and bonus's for winning certain achievements so why not the Olympians? I agree, they probably would rather pay taxes and have the medal/s.
    bulletman

    With the size of the medals now they would be far two heavy hang around the neck if solid gold, and far too expensive.

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    The gold medal is silver with a 6% gold plating, however  olympics up to the 1930's were solid gold, the medals were a lot smaller than they are now.

    Colleen

    Moderator
    There's also copper in it. 6.16% copper if I figured it our correctly.

    Click here>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_medal


    And I think yes because Olympics is worldwide !

    Olympic gold medals are not made of solid gold. By definition of the Olympic Committee, gold medals must be plated with at least six grams of gold.

    - The gold medal is made up of 92.5% silver and 1.34% gold, with the remainder copper (a minimum of 6g of gold). 


    This is a good article about the 2012  medals > http://www.london2012.com/medals/about/ 





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