From the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002 to the Pyeongchang Winter Games in 2018, over 1,300 medals have been awarded to athletes from around the world in the last five Winter Olympics. These are the countries that have won the most of these coveted medals.
What's an Olympic gold medal from the 2022 Winter Olympics worth? It's priceless, of course, but it also happens to be worth at least $750 at current metal prices.
IOC regulations are generally understood to require that Olympics gold medals contain at least 92.5% silver, plated with at least 6 grams of gold.
Assuming the Beijing Olympics gold medals are as heavy as the Tokyo ones, and keeping those composition rules in mind, there's almost $350 worth of gold and a little over $400 worth of silver in the medal -- $750.64 worth of precious metals in total.
According to CNBC's markets team, the Tokyo gold medal was worth a bit more at the time -- about $820 at market prices last July.
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