Why Olympic athletes are still biting their medals in 2024, explained

Welcome to FTW Explains: a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Have you noticed athletes continuing to bite their medals? Even in 2024? Here’s an Olympics edition which will hopefully answer a question you might have.

This is a thing for every Olympics: whenever anyone wins a medal, whether it’s gold, silver or bronze, there are pictures of the winners biting the thing.

If you’re wondering what the deal with that is, that’s what this post is for.