i have been wondering about this for a long time.
so, i searched for it, and found this on yahoo answers.
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Bronze medal vs copper.?
why is there a bronze medal as a reward for the second runner up in sports and not a copper one?
It seems to be the more obvious choice to me, being the third in the short list of ‘precious metals’, gold, silver and copper?
and as i started to think about it, a second question came up:
when did people start to use gold, silver and bronze to signify a ranking?
was it when the three medals were introduced, which i believe was for the first modern olympic games in 1896, or has there been earlier use of the combination?
can anyone elaborate on these?
ANSWER
the reason that bronze was used over copper was the availability copper is sort of *scare there is more bronze in the world and a second thing is that bronze is more durable and copper is a little more destructible it was started in the original Olympics back in the days of ancient *grease/’/
*scarce
*isn’t it “Greece”?? :D
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