That makes a lot of sense, thinking about it. With a bronze, you can say, “well, I had a really rough day, but even still I managed to eke out a bronze.” But with silver, you’re tempted to say “…but could I have done 0.2s better and got the gold?”
Depending on the sport sometimes a bronze is a win and a silver is a loss. With some sports, if it’s a one on one thing, there’s a game that’s basically “if you win it’s a bronze, if you lose it’s fourth place” and then the next game (with different team obviously) is “if you win it’s a gold, if you lose it’s a silver”. So if you get a bronze, you won, if you get a silver, you lose.
Great point, although there’s also the third option where silver goes to the winner of the losers’ bracket (so, they only lost one game, and it wasn’t the last one). I’m pretty sure they don’t do that in the Olympics, though.
There’s actually something to this. Olympians that were surveyed reported more satisfaction with a bronze than a silver.
That makes a lot of sense, thinking about it. With a bronze, you can say, “well, I had a really rough day, but even still I managed to eke out a bronze.” But with silver, you’re tempted to say “…but could I have done 0.2s better and got the gold?”
Depending on the sport sometimes a bronze is a win and a silver is a loss. With some sports, if it’s a one on one thing, there’s a game that’s basically “if you win it’s a bronze, if you lose it’s fourth place” and then the next game (with different team obviously) is “if you win it’s a gold, if you lose it’s a silver”. So if you get a bronze, you won, if you get a silver, you lose.
That’s very true as well, I think all team sports are like this.
Great point, although there’s also the third option where silver goes to the winner of the losers’ bracket (so, they only lost one game, and it wasn’t the last one). I’m pretty sure they don’t do that in the Olympics, though.
Silver is first loser