For the best athletes in the Olympics, their lives’ athletic training has gotten them to the top of the podium in one of the biggest events in the world. All that work and struggle, and at the end of the road is a gold medal waiting to be placed around their victorious necks.
Well, only part of it is gold.
Gold medals that were made for the Olympics aren’t actually gold. The ratio isn’t even close.
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