Welcome to FTW Explains: a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Here’s an Olympics edition which will hopefully answer a question you might have.
You may have noticed a phenomenon that’s happened a lot in Tokyo and a lot more in past 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. Let’s dive in to the tradition and why athletes are still doing it in 2021.
