Maybe go the other way. Only one medal. Everyone else is a loser!
Maybe go the other way. Only one medal. Everyone else is a loser!
Also, they should really be larger. Olympic Medals have failed to keep pace with the finisher medals being handed out at half marathons and 5Ks. Why some are almost the size of a small dinner plate!
Brianruns10 wrote:
Also, they should really be larger. Olympic Medals have failed to keep pace with the finisher medals being handed out at half marathons and 5Ks. Why some are almost the size of a small dinner plate!
In the 1960s, plates were roughly 9 inches in diameter. In the 1980s, they grew to around 10 inches. By the year 2000, the average dinner plate was 11 inches in diameter, and now, it's not unusual to find dishes that are 12 inches or larger
5 wrote:
Maybe go the other way. Only one medal. Everyone else is a loser!
+1
While this alternative seems viable you run into a problem. The baseball cap used for fourth place could be turned backwards, essentially giving 4th place two trophies instead of one. This may cause there to be more competition for fourth place than first. I guess you could also turn the beret backwards or the sombrero and top hat upside down but I'd argue that those options are less enticing than turning the baseball cap backwards.
I think that an alternative would be to give everyone some sort of water carrying device. First place would get a water bottle, second place would get a glass cup, and third place would get a plastic cup, fourth place would get a paper cup.
4th place should get the Ventolin^3 medal, on the front is a unicorn and on the back shows the time they could have run in the fantasy world olympics....which will always be way faster than the true WR
this is prob the reason Pre is so famous, cause he got the Vent medal, so there is this never ending "what he could have run"...and im sure vent knows about this since he has seen every race since 1898, they guy is immortal
3 is a magic number.
They should do away with gold/silver/bronze and give all participants a participation medal regardless of where they finish. That is we are teaching kids these days, right??
They could give participation medals too !!!
Where's Finisher Medal when you need him?
Last place should receive the Wooden Spoon.
and extra medals for in the rain, in the heat, when training thru etc.
WarrenZ wrote:
They could give participation medals too !!!
Who cares whose the fastest - the winner should be the people's choice.
macdaddy wrote:
3 for the 100-400
4 for 800/1500
5 for 3kstp-marathon
tradition has inertia wrote:
Without any math to back me I'll say in the sprints first and fourth are much closer to being statistically similar that first and fourth are in distance races.
With distance of the race being a factor, I'd say the distance races are relativity closer than the sprints (It's also cinco de mayo and ive had too many margs so who knows...)
Either way, I was mainly (roughly) going by the number of participants in each race
I am surprised this argument has not yet surfaced. They should go at least 4 deep for medals because at least one of them will eventually be rescinded due to a failed drug test, or at least it will be in question due to drug cheat suspicions. Maybe even go 6 deep to cover in case the gold, silver, and bronze are won by drug cheats.
Cubism Cubed wrote:
The baseball cap used for fourth place could be turned backwards, essentially giving 4th place two trophies instead of one.
How does turning a hat backwards turn it into two hats?
I think that an alternative would be to give everyone some sort of water carrying device. First place would get a water bottle
Everyone already gets a water bottle after a race.
How about 1st place gets water and nobody else gets any? Introduce an element of punishment and shame. They have to go find water somewhere else.