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KalamityKel Wrote:

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> Who didn't know this?


Me... and the BBC Presenters where I first heard this..


I knew that they could not possibly Solid Gold.


More Gold in the Fake Jewelery they sell at dodgy markets.


Fox.

Sue Wrote:

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> Does it really matter? The winners are hardly

> likely to take them to the pawn shop or sell them

> to be melted down, are they? :)

>

> It's the achievement that they symbolise that's

> important, surely?


Mark Wells..

You might wonder how an Olympic athlete could part with any gold medal, let alone one attached to such a historic and emotional victory. Wells didn?t part with it lightly: he sold it to help pay for medical treatments related to a rare genetic disease that damaged his spinal cord. He sold the medal to a private collector, who in turn sold it through an auction house for $310,700 in 2010.



He is not alone..


http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/136386


Just Google and you will find many more.


In some poorer countries, Athletes may have no choice.


Fox.

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