Why are the Olympic medals being awarded at the Winter Games in Torino, Italy made to look like CDs?
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It has a hole in it to represent a piazza. This is a major signifcance in Italy.
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CDs are made of plastic.\n\nAnd plastic scratches very easily.\n\nIf you ever buy a box of blank DVDs, it comes with a clear DVD without anything on it. That's how I discovered they were plastic. Until then, I was fooled into believing they were some kind of metal.
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hmmm.... since winning an olympic gold medal is seen as a great  achievement... i doubt u ll be able to find a genuine one.... moron
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This is the full list of all the medals won at the Athens olympics. Unless i have missed one I do not see any shooting events mentioned in the list, so it looks like they won none.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/3609588.stm
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The 2006 Winter Olympics by the numbers: \n252: Number of medals to be awarded \n\n2,500: Number of athletes participating \n\n85: Number of countries participating \n\n12: Number of countries that have participated in every Winter Games \n\n171: Number of medals won by athletes who work for Home Depot (including summer and Paralympics) \n\n1: Number of U.S. athletes known to have competed as a piece of meat (Chris Witty, who ran costumed as an Italian sausage in a Milwaukee Brewers Sausage Race) \n\n81: Highest mph speed limit on Italian highways \n\n80: Average mph speed of a downhill skier \n\n10,000: Number of credentialed journalists \n\n416: Number of hours of television coverage \n\n7: Number of NBC networks showing coverage \n\n13: Number of medals Italy got in 2002 Salt Lake City Games (four gold, four silver, five bronze) \n\n34: Number of medals U.S. got in 2002 Salt Lake City Games (10 gold, 13 silver, 11 bronze) \n\n42: The average weight, in pounds, of a curling stone \n\n90: Number of medals Italian athletes have won in Winter Games (31 gold, 31 silver, 28 bronze) \n\n191: Number of medals won by U.S. athletes in Winter Games (69 gold, 71 silver, 51 bronze) \n\n56: Number of medals won by the U.S. team in its best event, speed skating \n\n29: Number of medals won by the Italian team in its best event, cross-country skiing \n\n215: Approximate number of U.S. athletes competing at Torino \n\n2.2 million: Number of people who live in Torino, the largest city ever to host a Winter Olympics \n\n6: Events added to the 2006 Winter Games (men's and women's speed skating pursuit, men's and women's snowboard cross, men's and women's biathlon mass start) \n\n263: Medals won by Norway, the top podium-taker in the Winter Olympics (not counting the 300 medals won by East and West Germany when combined with the single Germany's tally or the 275 won by the U.S.S.R./Unified Team/Russia) \n\n1: Number of athletes competing at Torino who have also medaled at Summer Games (Clara Hughes, Canada, bronze in 5,000 meter speed skating, 2002, and bronze in time trial and road race cycling events, 1996) \n\n6: Number of medals won by speed skater Bonnie Blair, top U.S. medal winner at Winter Games (five gold, one bronze) \n\n32: The number of worldwide partners/official sponsors of the 2006 Winter Olympics
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Ummmm, they won both the silver and bronze medals in Pairs Figure Skating in Torino and numerous medals in short and long track speed skating.  Not to mention summer olympics where they are leaders in diving and gymnastics. For lists of athletes, see http://www.olympics.org
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Well, the next XX Winter Olympics are going to be held at Torino, Italy From the 10th to 26th February 2006\n\nThe next summer Olympic games ( XXIX) are going to be held at BEIJING, China From the 8th August to 24th August 2008\n\nAfter that, following is the sequence :\n\nVANCOUVER 2010\nXXI Olympic Winter Games\nFrom the 12th to 28th February 2010\n\nLONDON 2012\nGames of the XXX Olympiad\nFrom the 27th July to 12th August 2012
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It's called ASCI art. There's a software that can produce them using software called bg_asci
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To become a winter olympic gold medalist you will need a lot of hard work especially if you are from a country with no snow.  Good luck
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In ancient Greece athletes were awarded Laurel leaf crowns.\n\nOn retiring they were "resting on their laurels"
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It is the very complicated surface of the snowflakes.  Ice and water may be clear, but some light is reflected, and some gets transmitted.  In the case of snow flakes, which are ice cristals, there is so much surface to reflect off, and light transmitted leaving off the back will strike the next snowflake behind (or the next bit of the same snowflake, deeper in) and eventually reflect back.  Since the shape is so weird, no coherent reflection can be seen, hence no good mirrored surface.  But the light will come back looking the same color as going in, hence white.
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The FIFA World Cup Trophy is made of solid gold and malachite. It is made by the Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga. He described his creation in these words: "The lines spring out from the base, rising in spirals, stretching out to receive the world. From the remarkable dynamic tensions of the compact body of the sculpture rise the figures of two athletes at the stirring moment of victory". The trophy is 36 cm high, made of solid 18-carat gold and weighs 4,970 grams. The base contains two layers of semi-precious malachite and has room for 17 small plaques bearing the name of the winners - space enough for the World Champions up to the year 2038. The current FIFA World Cup Trophy cannot be won outright, as the regulations state that it shall remain FIFA's own possession. The World Cup winners retain it until the next tournament and are awarded a gold-plated replica.
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They have a hole in the middle through which the ribbon loops.\n\nhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10685869/?meta_salt=1356452\nClick on "Olympic Designs", and it's the last picture.
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http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/olympics.html site.http://www.olympic.ca/EN/games/reports/medals_games_winter.shtml Try these two sites.
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each ring represents one of the five continents involved in the olympics at the time of its creation.\nalso, all the countries involved could make their flag out of the colors used for the rings and thier white background.
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Sorry, those game are over.  They were in Torino, Italy.  For a list of finalists, try going to the official Olympics website and looking for news on finalists before Torino.
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no way! come on get a life. olympics come once every 2 years and winter olympics come once every 4 years! try something new. look at skeliten or downhill ski racing instead.