Olympic Medals

If I were an athlete competing in the Vancouver Olympics and won the gold,  I'd be ticked off when I saw the ugly thing I had worked 8 hours a day for ten years training for.  This is it???  I'm supposed to hang this on a wall for all to see?  Ugh.  It even looks worse on TV.  (My favorites would be the Beijing Summer Olympics - now those were medals to be shown off:)