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First- and second-place finishers traditionally receive a Gold Medal and Silver Medal , respectively.


OLYMPIC GAMES


artist Giuseppe Cassioli with text giving the host city; the reverse showed another generic design of an Olympic champion. From 1972 - 2000 , Cassioli's design (or a slight reworking) remained on the obverse with a custom design by the host city on the reverse. Noting that Cassioli's design showed a Roman amphitheatre for what was originally a Greek games, a new obverse design was commissioned for the Athens 2004 Games. Winter Olympics medals have been of more varied design.


Psychological study

In 1995, a study was carried out by Social Psychologists Victoria Medvec, Scott Madey and Thomas Gilovich on the effects of Counterfactual Thinking on the Olympics. The study showed that athletes who won the bronze medal were significantly happier with their winning than those athletes who won the silver medal. The silver medalists were more frustrated because they had missed the gold medal, while the bronze medalists were simply happy to have received any honors at all (instead of a fourth place). {Link without Title}


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