Surprise: the gold medals are bad! In reality, from an exquisitely metalliferous point of view, there is almost no difference between a “gold” medal won at the Olympics and a silver one: “Olympic gold mainly contains silver” reveal the experts of Confinvest, a specialized company in physical gold investments. “In percentage terms, in a gold medal there is about 99% silver, while gold is only 1%”.
Obviously the economic advantages of Olympic gold are not measured by the weight of the metal on the slingbar. The case of Marcell Jacobs is an example of this. Some analysts have made projections on the future fruits of his victory in the 100 meters flat (the queen of Olympic competitions) evaluating it as a possible springboard towards sectors such as fashion or wellness: sponsorships could bring him, in perspective, several million euros. Even the blue Tamberi, after the flight in the high jump, a discipline second only to the race in terms of Olympic prestige (the motto of the Olympics says “Citius, altius, fortius”) could see his finances fly thanks to partnerships with important sponsors.
1% gold seems like little in a gold medal, but at the beginning there wasn’t even that: in the first Olympics, which took place in Athens in 1896, no gold medals were awarded, instead introduced in 1900 , at the Paris Olympics. We wish Jacobs, Tamberi & C. a hundred more of these crap.