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London Olympics: Medal Biting

Iran's Ghasem Ghiamreza Rezaei bites his gold medal on the podium after he won the Men's 96kg Greco-Roman gold medal fight at the Excel Centre in London. The origin of the oddity lies in the notion of testing the purity of the medal. In their pure forms, gold and silver are both soft enough to mark with your teeth.