It turns out it might be because they’re following orders—specifically, the photographer’s. When Olympic winners pose for a victory image, a sea of photojournalists are snapping away and asking athletes to do something besides just stand there and smile. With no other props handy, winners have picked up the habit of nibbling on their medal to satisfy the photographic feeding frenzy.

If you’re wondering whether anyone has chipped a tooth doing this, the answer is—of course. In 2010, German luger David Moeller broke off the corner of his tooth chomping on his silver medal. Good thing his mother is a dentist.

Of course, biting on gold used to be a way to tell if it was genuine (the real thing will show slight bite marks). But most Olympians probably know by now that their gold medal is mostly made up of silver and copper. If they were actually solid gold, the prizes would cost the IOC about $17 million.

source: mentalfloss

The Olympics is all about sports. How much do you know about certain sports?

Match the words below with the following sports. Some words may belong to more than one sport.

1. athletics

2. basketball

3. fencing

4. football

5. gymnastics

6. horse riding

7. ice hockey

8. skiing

9. swimming

10. tennis

A) butterfly

B) court

C) doubles

D) downhill

E) field

F) finish

G) foul

H) freestyle

I) dribbling

J) gloves

K) goal

L) hammer

M) hurdles

N) kick-off

O) mask

P) net

Q) pommel horse

R) puck

S) still rings

T) racket

U) relay

V) rink

W) saddle

X) sabre

Y) spring board

Z) track

Key:

1 – E, F, L, M, U, Z

2 – B, G, I

3 – J, O, X

4 – E, G, I, K, N, P

5 – Q, S, Y

6 – F, J, M, W

7 – J, K, R, V

8 – D, F, H

9 – A, F, H, U, Z

10 – B, C, P, T

The Hungarian men’s water polo team truly played as a team (the first 8 goals were scored by 8 different players) and they have every chance to continue marching towards the final. Without any further talk, we should get down to the most exciting part of Day 1, which was Emese Szász’ fascinating battle for the gold medal. To be honest, nobody expected a gold medal, neither such a confident attitude, as she hasn’t been able to achieve outstanding successes at world events in a very long time. But the 33-year-old epee fencer proved statistics wrong and rose from the dead, if it was needed. As you saw her fighting her way for the mighty gold medal you realised how much she deserved it. And watching her whoops of joy and rejoicing was heart-warming. So Hungary has a new Olympic Champion in women’s epee fencing after Tímea Nagy’s successes in 2000 and 2004. Timi was also helped by four time Olympic Champion Győző Kulcsár, who is now Emese’s coach. Not to mention that Hungary’s first gold medal in Rio was won in fencing just like 4 years ago (Áron Szilágyi). This could be a lucky charm for Hungarians. What came next was even more unbelievable. It was Katinka Hosszú, the Iron Lady herself. We knew that she was in her best shape and that she was the absolute potential winner of the 400 metres individual medley. But she came, destroyed the field, and broke the world record with such ease that it was totally worth waking up for her in the middle of the night (in Hungarian time her final was at 3:50 am in the morning). It became obvious that Katinka’s only opponent is the world record as she beat everybody with 4 seconds! She said that she felt like she was at training and was able to do everything just like they planned with Shane. It was so good to see Shane’s fanatic, tribal-like jubilance. They are partners both in life and in the swimming pool and what they did in the last four years is incredible. New York Times even published a long article about their relationship. They are truly a winning duo and Katinka seems unstoppable. As their favourite saying goes: Hard work always pays off.

Congratulations Emese and Katinka!

source: dailynewshungary.com

In English there are a lot of idioms based on sports.

Can you match the idiom and its definition?

Key

1. e.

2. a.

3. d.

4. b.

5. f.

6. c.

7. j.

8. g.

9. h.

10. i.