I wholeheartedly agree...the aspect of this that is not discussed here or in the articles attached is that if it's a team sport or if there's a bracket involved to determine the medalists, the winner of the bronze medal wins a third place game to earn that medal, as opposed to the silver medalist who loses the first place game. The lasting memory is that final contest, and that's what sticks in people's heads immediately after the competition, good or bad.
In high school I was going to run for president of a club but it seemed that a more popular student would win and I didn’t want the “loser” job of vice president so I ran for another position which I got. Who could have foreseen that the popular kid who won would have gotten literally run over by a bus and I could have slipped into the position?!? Regrets.
I wholeheartedly agree...the aspect of this that is not discussed here or in the articles attached is that if it's a team sport or if there's a bracket involved to determine the medalists, the winner of the bronze medal wins a third place game to earn that medal, as opposed to the silver medalist who loses the first place game. The lasting memory is that final contest, and that's what sticks in people's heads immediately after the competition, good or bad.
I was going to comment this. Winking third place definitely feels different than losing first place to get second place.
In high school I was going to run for president of a club but it seemed that a more popular student would win and I didn’t want the “loser” job of vice president so I ran for another position which I got. Who could have foreseen that the popular kid who won would have gotten literally run over by a bus and I could have slipped into the position?!? Regrets.