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Photographers may have asked athletes to pose by biting their medals. 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 , German luger David Moeller broke off the corner of his tooth chomping on his silver medal. People once bit gold coins try to make an indent; a small tooth mark in a coin assured it consisted of real gold, which is more malleable than counterfeit gold-plated lead coins.
The medals contain 1. Fanny Blankers-Koen, the heroine of the Olympics in London, who was a good friend of mine, once told me that she had to have her four gold medals re-gilded two times over the years. And some really sink their teeth into their prizes. At the Winter Olympics, German luger, David Moeller, who won a silver medal, broke his tooth while mugging for cameras and showing off his bite.
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