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takashi kawamura is mayor of nagoya, the fourth largest incorporated city in japan. this is not his first controversial incident.
on 20 february 2012, while serving as the japanese representative of nagoya, mayor takashi kawamura made denialist statements about the nanjing massacre while receiving an official chinese delegation from nanjing. the incident led to the suspension of all official exchange between the two cities of nagoya and nanjing on 21 february. some nagoya citizens opposed takashi kawamura's denial by organizing lectures and setting up a website.
when i was in jr. high in the detroit area, we had career day and instead of our regular schedule, we received a new one where a different visiting adult would talk about their work and give us motivational speeches.
i landed in what was usually my math classâ€™s room where steve fraser was speaking. a native of the area, he explained how a dumb jock like him got a scholarship to the â€œpublic ivyâ€� university of michigan for wrestling, where he not only was a collegiate champ, but through a lot of hard work, he managed to pass all his classes and matriculate; and we could, too, if we just buckled down and applied ourselves.
then he talked about how he made the olympic team and became the first american to win gold in greco-roman wrestling and then he handed his gold medal out to the nearest kid and told him to pass it around the whole class!
when it came to me, i was stunned and time stood still, the teacher whose room it was had to snap me out of it to pass it to the next kid. it was fairly big and really heavy for its size. of course, i had had zero experience with any kind of gold prior, had no idea about itâ€™s density and the periodic chart etc.
fraser joked that on a special day, he was going to unwrap the foil and eat the chocolate inside.
and yet, even after he said that, a whole classroom full of eleven-year-olds respectfully handled a gold medal and refrained from hitting on that hunk of man nor did any of us put the medal anywhere near our mouths.
ok, wait, this gesture didnâ€™t come out of nowhere, though. isnâ€™t that what they all do, bite the medals?
itâ€™s not his medal. he doesnâ€™t get to do that with other peopleâ€™s medals.
who knows what was going through a japanese mayorâ€™s head when he decided to snack on a softball playerâ€™s olympic gold medal?
many athletes will pretend to bite their gold medal as a goof, as though checking to see if it is genuine, much as people did in the early days of solid gold coins. solid gold is relatively soft and will deform slightly when bitten. fakes tend to be much harder, but itâ€™s hardly a reliable test. in modern days, gold medals are not solid gold anyway. my understanding is they are gold plated silver. pretending to bite is one thing, though pointless.  one would have to bite really hard to deform the silver base metal.
thatâ€™s definitely on-brand for the scumbags at the ioc.
itâ€™s kind of like kissing a spouse in public. usually fine if itâ€™s your own, generally frowned upon if you do it to someone elseâ€™s without warning or permission.
what! thereâ€™s no chocolate inside?
too bad he didnâ€™t chip a tooth.
it has been suggested that most of them probably donâ€™t want to bite them at all and are just pressed into doing so now.
it makes for an iconic photo of the winners every four years, but where did the tradition come from?
i suspect that historically the distance and language barrier has provided a pretty effective curtain to hide arses behind.
olympic medals havenâ€™t been solid gold since 1912. in fact, only 3 olympics ever awarded solid gold medals- winners in 1896 got silver medals. in 1900, the winnersâ€™ medals were supposed to be gilt silver, but shortages of materials meant most winners got cups or other trophies instead.
the 1904, 1908 and 1912 medals were solid gold but were much smaller than todayâ€™s medals- the 1912 medals were 33 mm in diameter and 1.5 mm thick, compared to 85 mm diameter and 7-12 mm thick for the medals awarded in tokyo.
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stupidest looking act from a normal adult i know of.
i know, first they cancel the 1916 games because of the â€œwarâ€�, and then they have the gall to blame that same war for â€œshortagesâ€� of gold. 
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