The unexpected reason after the medal bite of the athletes

In any individual sport, medal athletes regularly bring this precious object to their mouths and bite the bluff even though few understand the reason behind the action.

The winners of sports competitions often have the habit of biting their medals on the prize podium, but no one really knows why they did so. In fact, this is still a persistent mystery that even historians have to give up.

This is still a persistent mystery that even historians have to give up.

"We don't know why they did that," said Anthony Bijkerk, secretary general of the International Association of Historians. "As far as I know, it's a long-standing habit."

But recently NBC raised this question to two athletes and finally revealed the secret behind their medal bite.

In a video posted by NBC, two former athletes (swimming) Natalie Coughlin and Dawn Harper-Nelson (hurdles) said that, after winning a medal, they were surrounded by a reporter forest and These reporters asked them to bite into the medal they just won.

Harper-Nelson said: "They screamed" Look at me! "And everyone screamed like" Smile! "Or" Bite your medal! ".

"They made us tired and had to bite into the medal," Coughlin agreed.

That is: Reporters told them to do so.

The video also eliminates the hypothesis that medal biting is a way to check if it is counterfeited. Gold is very soft and when biting, it will leave a mark, meaning that it is easy to identify a fake. But since 1912 gold medals have not been made from gold.

The funny thing is that today, the composition of gold medals is 99% silver.