> There are usually only 2-3 athletes with a significant chance of winning the gold medal
I do not know where you got those numbers from, but I don't see how could possibly be true for any one sport, let alone for all sports with competitors quire literally from all over the world.
As someone else mentioned in the thread,the silver medalist is likely thinking "I almost won gold, if only I had done a little better", while the bronze medalist knows that are a notch away from gold, so they are thinking "I almost failed to make it to the podium, woohoo!"
I do not know where you got those numbers from, but I don't see how could possibly be true for any one sport, let alone for all sports with competitors quire literally from all over the world.
As someone else mentioned in the thread,the silver medalist is likely thinking "I almost won gold, if only I had done a little better", while the bronze medalist knows that are a notch away from gold, so they are thinking "I almost failed to make it to the podium, woohoo!"