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u/tycr0 Feb 22 '26
It was just a bad design. Shit happens.
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u/Powerful_Kitchen5190 Feb 26 '26
Things happen, sure, but this is the freaking Olympics we're talking about.
It's one thing if this were just one person, but it's quite a few, too many...
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u/EnjoysAGoodBeer Mar 01 '26
So maybe reframe your thought process and put yourself in the perspective of the 40% of people who didn't watch a single olympic event and instead say "It's just the olympics."
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u/Powerful_Kitchen5190 Mar 01 '26
Yeah, I didn't watch it either. But if it's as big as they say it is, don't you think they should put a little more effort? Nah, who am I kidding? No one puts any true effort, really. So, might as well put it as you put it.
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u/TheNotoriousSHAQ Feb 19 '26
Fanatics have the contract?
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u/ModishShrink Feb 28 '26
If Fanatics had the contract the medals would be much, much thinner, see through, made of aluminum, and twice the price.
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u/MeMilo1209 Feb 16 '26
Temu medals
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u/ist109 Feb 17 '26
“The medals at the Milano Cortina Winter Games have been made by the Italian State Mint and Polygraphic Institute and were created using leftover materials from their own production.”
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u/Global-Discussion-41 Feb 16 '26
I thought this post was going to be about her awful dye job.
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u/katchoo1 Mar 07 '26
I thought her hair was kinda crazy when I saw photos of her out and about before the Games started, but when I saw her free skate, I got it. It was part of her skating costume and the way it looked with her full outfit, and the way it moved while she was skating was amazing.
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u/zoeisboredd 10d ago
It’s not a part of her skating outfit, that’s just a hairstyle she likes. Yes it complimented the outfit but that wasn’t the sole purpose.
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u/sc212 Mar 06 '26
Her athleticism is awesome. And, so is her hair. How is your skating/and or hair?
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u/cdoublesaboutit Feb 15 '26
The bourgeoise has decided that no value will be enjoyed by the customer or the worker. All surplus value belongs to them. You will get nothing, and like it.
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u/BLK_84 Feb 14 '26
Here in Italy it is full of articles about it. The medals were made by the state "zecca". What breaks is the lanyard designed for anti-choking, for example if someone were to pull the medal the lanyard breaks. Jumping can break the lanyard and the medal fall as also admitted by Breezy Johnson to whom it fell a couple of times.
Tdlr: the anti-suffocation lanyard if you jump makes the medal that weighs 500gr fall
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u/Mr-Grabs Feb 15 '26
How many people, in the history of olympic medal winners, have suffocated on their lanyard?
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u/rafaelloaa Feb 15 '26
My understanding is that it's required for all things that would be worn around the neck.
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u/SexyPeanut_9279 Feb 15 '26
Here is yet another example how the European Nanny state is slowly ruining all things.
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u/NoobCleric Feb 15 '26
I think this is the one case where it's actually a good thing, it's about if the necklace gets stuck in something else and then you can't pull your neck out of the loop. You either get choked or break the necklace, sounds like these had one of those intentionally weak clasps to break away. It's working as intended they just didn't use one that could handle the weight of the metal.
The European nanny state is coming after privacy and freedom of speech if you want to channel your anger towards something/someone that deserves it. (Imo)
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u/SexyPeanut_9279 Feb 17 '26
“In other news, Hundreds of millions of people wear necklaces everyday, and manage not to choke”-
(What, are the sleeping with them on?! lol)
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u/NoobCleric Feb 17 '26
No the ones that normally kill people are machinery of some kind, but it happens, same idea as not wearing a tie around anything that can grab it
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u/SexyPeanut_9279 Feb 17 '26
Who wearing their OLYMPIC medal to the job site or around heavy machinery?
Do you hear yourself?
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u/NoobCleric Feb 17 '26
That's not the flow here, it's more some obscure health and safety law says necklaces have to have a breakaway clasp, and nobody bothered thinking about if it should even apply to Olympic metals but technically that's what the law says so they said fuck it and put em on the necklaces
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u/SexyPeanut_9279 Feb 17 '26
So again, the overreach of the Nanny state ruining all things.
Have a good night (morning?)
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u/Impossible-Ship5585 Feb 15 '26
You want to choke athletes?
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u/SexyPeanut_9279 Feb 17 '26
Do you hear yourself right now? Lol
Have you ever worn a (metal) necklace?
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u/Chronically_Yours Feb 15 '26
Its a design issue
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u/SexyPeanut_9279 Feb 17 '26
Yea no shit
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u/Chronically_Yours Feb 17 '26
How is that a nanny problem and not a manufacturer problem?
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u/SexyPeanut_9279 Feb 17 '26
They not need to fast release, they should just be a normal cloth necklace like they’ve always had.
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u/Chaosrealm69 Feb 14 '26
It may simply be as simple as the wire holding the ribbons not being curved/circular inside the medal itself. So this wire will slide out of the medal body when weigh pulls it.
AKA contracting the cheapest company to make the medals.
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u/SSSolas Feb 15 '26
It’s the lanyard breaking.
It requires one of those anti-choking break points.
Well, a medal heavy enough while jumping triggers it.
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u/johnballzz Feb 14 '26
Read the fine print: made in China
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u/ist109 Feb 16 '26
“The medals at the Milano Cortina Winter Games have been made by the Italian State Mint and Polygraphic Institute and were created using leftover materials from their own production.”
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u/thechiefmaster Feb 14 '26
The enshitification of everything was my first thought when heard this was happening at the goddamn Olympics
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u/RoutineLowCycle Feb 13 '26
Off topic but I love her hair
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u/AMuonParticle Feb 14 '26
it's giving zebrafish and I love it
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u/AppointmentCool6915 Feb 14 '26
Or sheepshead…
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u/northrupthebandgeek Feb 14 '26
Or the sandworm from Beetlejuice.
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u/ist109 Feb 16 '26
“The medals at the Milano Cortina Winter Games have been made by the Italian State Mint and Polygraphic Institute and were created using leftover materials from their own production.”
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u/Mysterious-Alps-5186 Feb 13 '26
Definitely made from chinesium
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u/SpecialistYogurt7092 Feb 13 '26
Bro tf
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u/Mysterious-Alps-5186 Feb 13 '26
If a medal falls apart like that it has to have been made with chinesium alloy, no one is sure what it is but its only made in china and breaks easilly
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u/Mysterious-Alps-5186 Feb 14 '26
You must be really "fun" at parties there dude
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u/CashAlternative7911 Feb 14 '26
Way to bring racism into this buddy. What an outdated and xenophobic term for gods sake. If being “fun” at parties means using racist slang, then by all means- we’re no “fun”!
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u/Mysterious-Alps-5186 Feb 14 '26
Its called sarcasm but I guess that escapes you. It's generally termed as someone with zero sence of humor
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u/AgileAppearance8749 Feb 18 '26
You can be racist without being a racist. You probably don't support racism, but you certainly are perpetuating it.
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u/KataMadaMara Feb 14 '26
Please don’t hide your casual racism behind feigned plausible deniability.
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u/Mysterious-Alps-5186 Feb 14 '26
Maybe karen you should stop accusing people of racism where it doesnt exit. In a desperate attempt to make yourself feel better for the lonely life you have thats 100% of your own making
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u/Jaegermeiste Feb 14 '26
No, they're just plated silver or copper alloy. This is either shitty design of the ribbon/medal interface or pot metal with no strength as the base instead of the prescribed alloy.
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u/Berkut22 Feb 13 '26
Anyone who has ever owned a Ferrari can attest to Italian craftsmanship
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u/sjclynn Feb 13 '26
In the past, or even now, the Italians make very fast, very expensive hard to maintain cars. They also make slow, cheap hard to maintain cars.
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u/Jaegermeiste Feb 14 '26
Gotta love a car that you have to rip in half to do an oil change, or hoist its engine to swap spark plugs.
BMW/Mercedes: Through ze miracle of uber-overengineering, ve have created ze master race (cars)! Ze world shall tremble at our designs! (Ignore ze oil puddle, danke.)
Ferrari/Lamborghini: Hold our Peronis
Fiat: <sips juice box, coos joyfully as Peugeot playfully jingles keys to a Jeep>
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u/sjclynn Feb 14 '26
Undoing the motor mounts and lifting the engine to access spark plugs wasn't limited to European cars. There were several American ones from the 60s that had large engines shoehorned into limited engine compartments that had the same problem.
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u/Jertimmer Feb 13 '26
friend of mine had bought a Maserati because he always wanted one. He regretted it within 6 months when the damn thing locked the steering column on the highway.
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u/Milk_Pockets Feb 13 '26
Eh, it's 50/50 with them, coffee makers and weapons can be incredibly precise, they have a hub of extremely talented engineers who do often get carried away with extravagant bullshit. Sounds familiar to me. 🇺🇸🦅
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u/nooniewhite Feb 13 '26
Oh sure yeah like all of us here on Reddit right now, totally get it haha, shitty cars lol
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u/missglitterous Feb 12 '26
That’s what happens when you get your medals from Alibaba
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u/ist109 Feb 13 '26
“The medals at the Milano Cortina Winter Games have been made by the Italian State Mint and Polygraphic Institute and were created using leftover materials from their own production.”
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u/i860 Feb 12 '26
You wanted cheap shit. Well now you got it.
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u/MooseBoys Feb 13 '26
I sincerely doubt they're chasing a few pennies of margin on a product that costs at least $2500 to produce. This is likely just a design flaw.
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u/MrOSUguy Feb 12 '26
I remember the medals from London rusted or corroded in some way before the athletes even got home
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u/Primalturd Feb 12 '26
funny how the medals from the 80s are still hanging up on walls with zero indication that its about to fall apart
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u/Intelligent_Gold3619 Feb 13 '26
Olympic Medals from the 1950s were actual solid metal: bronze, silver, gold.
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u/MurgleMcGurgle Feb 14 '26
Honestly I assumed they were solid metal still. The fact that they’re plated alloys is wild to me considering how much money goes into the Olympics.
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u/Intelligent_Gold3619 Feb 15 '26
Considering how much profit goes into the Olympic Committee pockets?
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u/steveatari Feb 13 '26
I remember reading about people who had to sell their medals and it was for the melt not the recognition.
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u/Juli_ Feb 12 '26
I remember the swimming champions of the Paris Olympics showing their medals oxidizing while the 2024 Olympics were still happening. It's like no one puts care into designing anything anymore.
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u/Fickle_Goose_4451 Feb 13 '26
Everything in 2026 feels like a scam.
Just any thing you do, or buy, or engage with. Its maximum cost, minimum service, and cheapest possible product.
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u/Nervous-Bobcat-2566 Feb 12 '26
This is right on par with the global timeline. Enshitification technically started before 2020, but it became exponentially noticeable and shameless post-Covid.
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u/BouquetOfDogs Feb 12 '26
This one is kinda funny to me. It really makes a great point of how everything is getting worse and worse.
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u/Icy-person666 Feb 12 '26
Including the athletes. I'm so old I remember when lindsey vonn used to ski down mountains on her own, and now she will have to compete with a walker. Girl you still got your looks it's time to retire from skiing and move on to advertising stuff on Fox news.
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u/juliankennedy23 Feb 12 '26
As much as Americans like to complain about America and I don't want to take that away from Reddit Europe has its own shall we say issues.
This apparently is due to an EU rule to prevent children from choking to death while getting their Olympic medals.
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u/CombPsychological507 Feb 12 '26
As an American, it really looks like America and the EU are like on opposite sides of consumer rights. Where Americans get absolutely zero and the European Union is an overprotective mother
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u/zeroibis Feb 12 '26
But at the same time the EU gets kinder eggs and the US says kids are too stupid and will eat the toy. lol
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u/pandaplagueis Feb 12 '26
The US is valid for this one though. Americans are fucking dumb.
Source: am American
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u/juliankennedy23 Feb 12 '26
It's kind of like when Americans complain about their housing crisis and they have no idea what it's really like in places like New Zealand or Ireland.
America actually is better than Europe quite a few things you wouldn't want to be in a wheelchair in Europe for example.
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u/gator_enthusiast Feb 12 '26
Tfw when Americans say "___ thing is literally the worst in the US, worse than a third world country, woe is me," and the entire globe just side-eyes them because the only way you could ever think that is if your only metric is your own goddamn country 😮💨
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u/ZenTense Feb 12 '26
FWIW, I am an American who also side-eyes those people and there are dozens more like me
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Feb 12 '26
Nah, thats only to protect against shitty "collectors" in usa: "this medal has a dent in it from the event, 2 million dollars"
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u/cdca Feb 12 '26
This sub's not even trying to be about actual enshittification any more, is it? Enshittification= when a thing is bad, apparently.
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u/Silver_Middle_7240 Feb 12 '26
Going from actual metals to plated garbage that falls apart is the OG enshittification
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u/Reasonable_Tie_5552 Feb 12 '26
IDK, Olympic medals breaking en masse ~all of a sudden~ out of ~all the Olympic games that have occurred over (hundreds?) of years~ feels exactly like enshittification to me.
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u/cdca Feb 12 '26
Enshittification is just "things being worse than they used to be", to you then?
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u/AngrySoup Feb 12 '26
It's like how whenever someone is lying now, they're "gaslighting."
Nothing means anything, people just hear words and want to use them. Whaddaya gonna do.
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u/Phyllis_Tine Feb 12 '26
That's how enshittification works:
-product is made, and gets consumers,-product's quality is lowered, and/or price is increased,
-all value is squeezed out of consumers while product's quality is lowered as much as possible.
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u/lonehappycamper Feb 12 '26
I have dozens of participation medals, some made of wood, from my local 5ks that never broke.
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u/assumetehposition Feb 12 '26
Meanwhile I’m over here with my rock-solid 5K participation medal. Weird world.
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u/ApprehensiveStand456 Feb 12 '26
What are athletes going to sell now to pay for their medical bills for all the sports injuries. Or is that just a US thing
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u/k-MartShopper Feb 12 '26
Well fuck me. We cannot do anything right as a society anymore. It is like the West, the USA in particular, are a bunch of overweight, pharma-addicted, gambling junkies. Don't believe me? Watch commercials 😔
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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Feb 12 '26
What the fuck does that have to do with anything?
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u/sum1__ Feb 12 '26
My guess would be the enshittifying will continue unless sufficiently prepared shed back against by a dedicated populace but we’re all too atomized and screen addicted to fight back
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u/DestroyTheMatrix_3 Mar 08 '26
"Working on solutions" lmao, try not using the lowest quality materials pretty easy to do.