The Winter Olympics is the upstart younger brother of the Summer Olympics, and though both have been around for a while, the Winter Olympics like to take some..."liberties" with the sports event. The 2010 games in Vancouver are right around the corner, and they've already made the Olympic Torch look like a giant joint (in Canada's "marijuana capital," above). So when the committee announced their medal designs yesterday, maybe we shouldn't be surprised that they're a little "unorthodox."
In 2006, Torino's Winter Olympic medals looked like giant doughnuts (or Italian piazzas, I apologize), and were criticized by some purists. Those critics are going to hate the Vancouver medals, which look like more like Salvador Dali's melting clocks than awards. The Vancouver Olympic Committee describes the medals as "one of a kind pieces of Aborignal art," but as my fellow editor (and esteemed Canadian) Tara Ariano says, "They look like a hippie left them to melt on a radiator." Check them out for yourself:
[Via Fourth Place Medal]
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