Olympic Medals Contain Less Gold

When we first heard that London would be holding the 2012 Olympic games, we looked into who and how the Olympic medals would be made, we wrote a post about how the medals would be made back in 2011.

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This year’s Olympic medals that were made by Royal Mint, were being guarded at the Tower of London until the Games began on July 27.

The 2012 gold medal is 92.5 percent silver and 1.34 percent gold, with the rest copper.

The silver medal is 92.5 percent silver, with the remainder copper, and the bronze medal is 97 percent copper, 2.5 percent zinc and 0.5 percent tin.

Although there is only 1.34% gold in the gold medal, it has been like this since 1912 when the last gold medals were handed out in Stockholm at the Olympic Games in Sweden, and its mainly because the price of gold has increased so greatly that to create 2000 medals out of gold would not be cost effective as well as causing possible problems with people trying to steal them.

The silver is 92.5% silver, which in recent months silver has been trying to overtake gold and although is is not worth as much as gold, could it cause problems?

We want to wish everyone competing in the 2012 Olympic games from all over the world, the best of luck and are supporting Team GB all the way.

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The metal sculpture that was put up a few weeks ago on a roundabout in Hadleigh, Essex may be moved once the olympic games have finished. It was placed there to commemorate the Olympic sport of mountain biking which is being held during August in Hadleigh. It has been now stated that it could possibley be moved to the spot of the olympic game instead of the roundabout.

There have been a couple of sculptures placed around Hadleigh along with numerous flags and signs to show support of the games.

Frustrated resident Bill Tiffin, of Arcadian Gardens, Hadleigh, claims repositioning it would leave it open to vandalism.

He said: “It is absolutely ludicrous. If they truly want it to be a legacy to the Games then the roundabout is already a great location, because everyone can see the sculpture as it’s right at the heart of the area.

“It is crazy to relocate it after all the work and money that has gone into it.

“If they put it in Hadleigh Farm it will just get vandalised and completely ruined because it will be out of sight, which would be a huge waste of money.”

An Essex County Council spokesman admitted Hadleigh Farm was being considered as a permanent venue.

He said: “One option being considered is a move to the Hadleigh Mountain Bike Venue to give future visitors an opportunity to reflect on the Games and the inspiring effect that this has had on the county.

“The sculpture will not be moved in six weeks and we will take on the views and opinions of residents to see where they would like this sculpture to be placed.”

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We are pleased to let you know that we will be open like usual during the Olympics.

We are based in Wickford, which is near Basildon as some of you may know, and there is an Olympic gym based in Basildon where some people maybe be training etc along side there being the mountain biking event in Hadleigh over 11th August and 12th August which is a weekend and we will be closed anyway.

So we thought by blogging a post to let you know we are open as usual, it would keep our customers in the know.

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