The 2010 Olympic medal design

[miyazaki]

These were revealed a few days ago. From what I read most peeps seem to like it.
The design is sort of unsettling to me. I feel I want to squash the ripples in it
and make it flat. It's like a warped cd or record, or a potato chip. It's like the
petrified cow shit my brother would pick up and chase me around my Grandpa's pasture
with.


http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.vancouversun.com/sports/2010wintergames/2010+olympic+medals+unveiled/2106329/2106495.bin

[orpupilofnature57]

1. I've never seen such resentment over an olympics ,since Germany 1934

Can we here one positive thing about Rio?

[AllentownJake]

2. This is about Vancouver

and the medals look kind of fucked up.

[regnaD kciN]

5. ...which was in 1936...

:eyes:

[Captain Hilts]

10. You beat me to it...nt

[orpupilofnature57]

14. Thanks ,,you got my drift though ,I hope?

[Renew Deal]

6. I didn't know we had people in their 80's posting on DU

:shrug:

[Captain Hilts]

9. Sorry, you're going to have to work harder on Rio's victimization. The medals ARE ugly!

[WeDidIt]

13. Nevermind

[SidDithers]

20. +1...

there was all kinds of wrong in that post, eh?

Sid

[unhappycamper]

3. If you put a good buzz on, they'll look OK. n/t

[Lochloosa]

4. A railroad track will fix those things

[miyazaki]

25. +10...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. I think the winners will like them anyway

The medals at Lillehammer were also a bit unusual, being very little metal and mostly just stone. Athletes still seemed to want them, go figure.

:hi:

[theHandpuppet]

8. Wow. Those are mugly.

They look like plastic tokens someone left in the microwave.

[excess_3]

11. an escargot out of a can? .nt

[JohnnyLib2]

12. Don't care, I'm going anyway.

Anyone else?

[CanSocDem]

15. OK that's it.

I am not going to put one of those in my trophy case. Luckily, my high standards are all about aesthetics and not athletics.

.

[Motown_Johnny]

16. I like them.. why should a medal look like a coin?

[rd_kent]

17. WHO cares what the medals look like?

None of us are ever going to win one. We are NEVER going to have to be embarrassed to show it to friends and family. Why are we complaining about it?


I am SURE that all of the athletes that do win one will be EXUBERANT about it and what it looks like will not matter, because in the end, ITS AN OLYMPIC MEDAL!

[bigwillq]

18. I like the look.

I think they're cool.

[madmom]

19. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think any athlete who wins one will think it beautiful.

[Rugbycomont]

21. Ha!

You think those are bad? You should see the 2012 logo...

[fishwax]

22. I think they're pretty cool

I prefer them to the medals from the last couple rounds:

2006


2008

[eppur_se_muova]

23. They're handing out sub-mini CD's? nt

[Amonester]

24. Are they "modeled" (or "inspired") from Natives art?

If they are, why complain?

Because some don't like native art?

Personally don't care about the "look" of things anyway, but man... grow up some.

Peace out!