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Why player put the medal in the mouth (like showing chewing it) after winning in a big event?

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Why player put the medal in the mouth (like showing chewing it) after winning in a big event?
posted Dec 5, 2016 by anonymous

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Most likely to satisfy the pose-hungry media, says David Wallechinsky, president of the International Society of Olympic Historians. There are only so many things to do with a medal, and the excited champions are usually appeasing requests from the gallery of Olympic photographers when they bite down on their booty.

"It's become an obsession with the photographers," says Wallechinsky, co-author of "The Complete Book of the Olympics." "I think they look at it as an iconic shot, as something that you can probably sell. I don't think it's something the athletes would probably do on their own."

answer Dec 10, 2016 by Pratiksha Shetty
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