now stand on the subject of gold a lot of economists fall for inflexibility of the gold standard for contributing to the debt deflation of the one nine hundred thirty s. now i recently interviewed george celdran professor of economics at the university of georgia and a senior fellow at the cato institute and i asked him what his thoughts were on the inflexibility of the gulf standard specifically in relation to its contribution to debt deflation of the one nine hundred thirty s. here's what he had to say. that is a very oversimplified perspective on what happened in the thirty's to put it mildly the true story is far more complicated the old gold standard which was in place in the decades prior to the outbreak of world war two the classical gold standard didn't create deflation problems although there were of course debtors who wish there had been more inflation than there actually was under that regime they always do it doesn't follow that the regime actually created a non healthy rate of deflation for the most part it didn't now with world war one basically the old classical gold st

here going obviously one better claim a gold brick man as well alex a boy of all days forty one more color for personality as you probably meet in the olympics sees also a professional arm wrestler. he took a break actually from. do professional arm wrestling night she intends to take up that side career after the olympics finish also border he. is a very good judo specialist as well and has been on a vegetarian diet for the last two years or so in order to try and prepare for these olympic games and obviously events diet has paid off by then getting gold well over twenty seconds russia will have a good chance one would think in the four man bob sleigh. it's going very well for russia with no other gold. unfortunately flown the weather has played havoc really over the last couple of days so we have brilliant sunshine for the first. ford really senti and up in a row as a whole which delayed the men's mass starts free times while the women were finally able to get underway but it really was a race to get the russian winners. could only finish twenty second and twenty fourth. claimed th

exchange and actually trying to create a gold mine back in two thousand and eleven and i mean you really should be talking about gold demand in china but we should be looking at how they're developing the gold market as a whole from the supply on the demand side facilitating sales what's happening with exchanges here they're allowed to trade dominates exchanges and of course you know there's lots of discussions about what's happening with the. reserves and that's just a whole other. story in itself i think of china there's a lot of talk telling us that they're going to announce that they've not. been a number considerably higher than that yeah i think you know i think if you look at what. academics have written on this we could be looking at. five thousand tonnes but so many people have done what it could be we don't know because we don't know about that mining figures that are happening and we can look at the hong kong import export. we can calculate that but actually there was the lady pool in which gold's been imported chinese are buyin

it was a fabulous day sixteen on sunday for the russians to claim gold i was a clean sweep in the men's fifty kilometer cross country skiing to be honest i was probably one of my favorite moments solve the. cough. and general cross the line almost i'm just a second between and came back clean to even go on the podium i really was going. it's a move for russia's cross-country skis a come in for a lot of criticism. for not getting the medals that was explained to those of the big series on she but they proved their critics wrong by putting in a fantastic final race so again it's the twelve gold for the russians thirteenth gold just came about. in the men's four man bobsled again alexander because of claiming his second gold all the olympics salty claim gold in the two mumbled sleigh was great man alex a boy of order and a great olympics also for the thirty nine year old who came out of retirement. with the words of order in which a man or men before mine and it was russia's flag bearers while i gave russia one of britain's thirteenth limb pick a gold medal which let them out of the standi

yes you should own gold everybody should own gold a significant amount of gold now what about other precious metals like silver or platinum or palladium. they're all very different to start with these are all industrial metals primarily gold is first and foremost a monetary metal it has its value not because it has other uses like just three and i technology and jewelry and so forth but it's useful mainly as money that's the way it's viewed in most parts of the world bob the united states or us. silver is kind of a poor man's gold but it's primarily and dust real metal so it's a different proposition of course platinum and palladium are entirely industrial metals i really don't have too much interest in them but i do like silver as a speculation it may be even better than gold because the power supply demand characteristics of supply and demand are because most of the gold that's ever been mined in history about six billion ounces probably is still above ground so new mining in the production of gold is trivial by comparison that's not true a silver so what makes us stand explanatio

it's going very well for russia where you had a number gold. unfortunately by our flown the weather has played havoc really over the last couple of days where we have brilliant sunshine for the first we formed really set in up in a row as a whole which delayed the men's mass starts are free times while the women were finally able to get underway but it really was a race to get the russian winners. could only fish twenty second and twenty fourth. claimed her gold medal at these games what was a nightmare race really for sidesaddle who fell midway through the race snapping a pole. all. valuable time while. she missed two shots on the shooting range and this really is turning out to be a disappointing lympics really for the biathletes just a silver and a bronze so far was supposed to be one of russia's top sports the winter olympics and in terms of talking of russia's top sports of the winter olympics we couldn't go any further without talking about the ice hockey russia take on norway tomorrow big expectations both on and off the ice. obviously ru

got a silver at summer it's the last world championships but he went one better this time winning a gold medal in salt she really led for and really from the first run right downs of forefront and finish for almost a victory distance of time of one minutes to give him a victory. so i'm not positive note and even though despite the perspectives of today what else does russia have to look forward to and day ten in such a. posy i stance. later this evening where russia do have a medal hope. then where russia of tradition is very very strong at last few decades but i think gold might be a bit beyond them this evening just because of the competition they face from tessa virtue and scott more of the united states and cheryl davis and charlie winds of canada those two players really are expected to live for the goal of a had to have quite a big lead after the short program but there's no reason that you need can consent in cuts a pile of. of cancer but really between them to try and get a bronze medal and try to continue what has been a fantastic figure skating gaze for russia so far at these o

a half k. in the mass start there the gold medal went to a russian daddy a dorm achiever and it was her third gold medal of these games and in securing that gold she's become the first female by athlete to win three individual gold medals at a single winter olympics where the female biathlon must start did take place however the men's event was postponed for a second day as well as the men's snowboard cross that's because of fog in the mountains of krasnaya polyana many people thought it would be the mild temperatures and the melting snow causing problems however it was the fog but both of those vent events have been rescheduled for tuesday with the fog now beginning to lift. those seven foot she time let's take a look at the medal standing sure there's a major change because russia's victory in the men's bob slays therefore put the national team into second place russia the netherlands the u.s. and norway have all won five goals in over the host nation both more silver that it would else in the top five and after clinching gold in the final event of day ten of them. germany strengthen this positi

great games it has been for the russians in setting a new mark of thirteen gold medals and a thirty three medals overall breaking the record of a set in a back in a nine hundred ninety four so all looking good for the future of russian winter sports the twenty second olympic winter games in two thousand and fourteen are war there to defeat the sort you know i seventy years of planning and finally the big day and riot as russia host of the first ever winter olympics the twenty second games got off to a spectacular start in seoul and she with a memorable opening ceremony and for a free time a limb picked ice hockey champion legendary soviet goaltender vladislav tretiak lighting the flame was one of the greatest achievements of his line if. those who ignite the olympic flame go down in history for many years to come because it's a task that is only given to the most popular in the most worthy sportsman it means the world to me because i'm representing the team of my youth the hockey team that is an eight time elim peak champion i feel honored out of all the players

boost by a figure skaters who won three golds on home ice a team competition and then pairs with maxine trying. helping seal both and in the women's individual competition after a surprise package at the lena sought to cover bridges for performance of our life to be retiring south korean superstar euna kim and claim russia's first ever gold in batter vents goddesses i would have to says i'm very proud to have won a gold medal at the age of seventeen it's such a great feeling it's about who with everything including myself sometimes i said to my mom i can't do this anymore i'm tired and she says ok give it up i'll still love you anyway but then i realize that i won't give up and will take my gold ten years ago russia didn't even have a sliding center very roughly this which makes for feats of gold medalists alexander tried to cough in the skeleton of a two man bobsled team of alexander's or because of and alex a boy order even more remarkable given the fog it always helps when you're competing at home because of the support you get from your friends

not at all the same thing as gold gold stocks are speculation. and there's a lot of. things that control bear their earnings besides the price of gold now over the last decade the prices of things like tires and these little fuel and so forth already have gone up explosively plus the gold mining itself is is not a good business it's a it's a crappy business. you've got political problems you've got not my backyard problem . i got you know so is it when you buy a gold mining stock you're speculating on many things besides the price of gold that's under the right circumstances it's a very leveraged bet on gold and gold mining stocks are the most volatile class of stocks in the world especially the junior exploration stocks and as we speak now i think there are fantastic speculation all these things being true that i've said they have the potential to move up to ten or twenty or even fifty to one as a group over the next three or four years ok now is there a form and sees me continue continue please note i've done that they were they put in that kind of a perform

: tom lives in gold country and finds an occasional nugget now and then. he bought a new medal detecter, the new treasure find is on his mind. $10million worth of gold coins found in these medal canisters. >> it inspires me. and it may still be out there. >> reporter: an unidentified couple found them while walking the dog under a tree next to their property a year ago. the coins date back to the mid 1800s and are in perfect condition. >> i just about fell out of my chair. you do not hear about buried treasures like this. >> reporter: the coins are being kept at an undisclosed locations. why so many secrets? the couple doesn't want to be bombarded be prospectors. larry manger saying it could be good for his business as gold fever spikes when ever there saw big fine. >> there is always a push for people wanting to mind the mother load. everybody wants to hit the millions. >> reporter: the couple plans to sell most of the coins on amazon.com, but will keep some of them to pass through the family. in auburn, joe vasquez, kpix5. >> cannot get enough of that story. so for

when you take a look at a close up of the gold i'll tell you about it thirteen hundred medals were made in total. they're heavy as well they weigh between four hundred sixty and five hundred fifty one grams the paralympic medals weigh a bit more they go between five hundred eighty five and six eight six grams the reason because they've got different amounts of writing on the more writing they've got the lighter they because there's less metal where each one of these medals takes eighteen hours to produce. they also have back up medals as well have been two occasions in the olympics where there's basically been a tie one of the bronze one in the gold were four where two people won the same medal so that's where they've always got the stock of medals and so thirty nine hundred of these guys were produced or sold to pick it up i can't tell you but a legacy thank you so much for coming in saying is there a new look after those in the us treasury most of your life good stuff. meantime russia's ice hockey. team putting their all into training there were more of these medals but stay

in terms of the charts, gold has had a nice bounce since the january lows. charts and look at gld here, which is the gold traded etf, we can see that it's been in a down trend since 2011. really, we think the most likely scenario is that it's doing another kind of wide sideways range like it did from november of 2011 through about march of 2013. so there is a bit more upside here as it has had this nice bounce but we think around 134, it will start to run into some selling pressure and likely turn lower from there, as there aren't any big reversal signals yet and that big down trend from 2011 likely still in effect. >> so the bottom line here, both guys are sort of bearish on gold. thank you both for that. appreciate it. check out the online edition of talking numbers in partnership of course with yahoo! finance. >>> a big move on oil today. let's get the latest at the nymex. >> you know, the dollar being weak has certainly been helpful in terms of commodities and we are seeing oil here, wti, nymex closing above 102. some geopolitical concerns helping to unde

we should write another list and a lot of people even a lot of gold i mean according to ben bernanke the outgoing fed german it's just a collectible a trinket that people might want or addition tradition yet it came to a thing called the barbarous relic so apparently people actually want gold well apparently. but of course i want gold and i think you know you in your view is one gold and then we'll go council figures that came out last year for last year they were released last week show that no matter what governments say or no matter what restrictions put on people still want to hold gold and particularly in china last year but look in india where restrictions put on what was really interesting by the local council figures was the first time in twelve years i think u.k. and u.s. demands go to go demand climbs particularly in the area of jewelry so people do you still want to hold gold and we can say there isn't a parallel way of gold demand on what's happening in the economy whether likely or in fashion that. you're associated janssen has a piece about china's gold what's happening

what police are calling a gold mine of information. >> reporter: the california highway patrol teamed up with the alameda county sheriff's department and federal agents to serve a search warrant at 36th avenue and east 9th street. seemed please with the busts and what they found. >> a gold mine of information. definitely. >> reporter: men and women taken out in cuffs. left shackled on the pavement while investigators searched this gray building for stolen cars and auto parts. officers sean said they found plenty and that this building has been under investigation since december. he believes the information recovered from this bust will lead to more arrests. >> due to the fact that so many people were located, so many things found, we also found seven guns on the premises. that in itself should tell you there's more going on. >> reporter: the warrant carried out after 10:30 in the morning by about 40 officers. wilkinfeld says this building has been prone to numerous noise complaints. >> one of the neighbors very happy to see us, her birthday, she says it's her best day of her life. >>

and a gold silver and bronze for russia on day twelve but a huge disappointment for hockey fans as the home side crashes out of the quarter final as we go live to sochi shortly this hour an hour to international. this is r.t. international with the twenty four hours a day live from our studio center here in moscow which is just ten ten pm and eight pm in kiev where there is news of a development causing concern it's reported more than a thousand weapons have been stolen from the authorities just a day after a violent clashes left twenty six dead with hundreds needing hospital treatment for injuries. reports now from the heart of the unrest. last night we reported from the independence square from the protester side this time we'll take you to the other side of the barricade the police lines where obviously the atmosphere is very tense i just took a stroll through the police lines and the police are seem to be very concerned of what's happening here over there as you can see the police line is here and over there the protesters they lit the tires on fire again the coal areas covered wit

a half k. in the mass start there the gold medal went to brad bell a russian daddy a dome achiever and it was her third gold medal of these games and in securing that gold she's become the first female by athlete to win three individual gold medals at a single winter olympics where the female biathlon must start did take place however the men's event was postponed for. second day as was the men's snowboard cross not because of fog in the mountains of crust pollyanna many people thought that would be the mild temperatures and the melting snow causing problems however it was the fault but both of those vent events have been rescheduled for tuesday with the fog now beginning to lift that was a report from our teams paul scott and of course one of the big events over the weekend was the u.s. russia hockey match the u.s. won in a shoot out but the two teams could face each other again before the olympics wrap up our team spoke with a russian hockey legend about playing for his home country take a look at all the years the live for us in team and still is way over the loss of pressure in the server but

we see how technology plays a role to give ath leets the edge - to win a gold medal. we have the inside scoop. in preparation of the goim, a u.s. team worked with engineers, scientists. did you u.s. have to do that? >> they did. the olympics is an arms race of teams working with different scientists and engineers. the place you see it is in the winter games , because they are relipt on equipment. ski jumpers are training with the wind tupel. how does it work, what does it do. >> they are in the air for a few seconds. you don't have mp practice. they can go in a wind tunnel and practice form and which parts of their form creates the during. they found a wind tunnel and they retro fitted it. they built ski bindings and projects the drag data. they can practice what we want and take what they larment. >> they have a reputation of being chilled. the members are wearing a device to track g-force. what is this? >> it's made by kata fault sports. it is strapped to the boots when they do tripping runs in the half vibing. it has an accelerometer which measures g-forces, velocit

made in the evening here in zone she has a pink top gold medal and a man's hope lies. it's the oldest in the men's top flight this horrible thing is in the united states of snowboarding. shaun white the flying tomato. anz's night and i was a two time that extended coming into the salty games for in the competition. may i introduce the cross ties into the new fishing pole place but seven of fourteen stole the americans in the men's top einsteins david why is why an excellent post run scoring nineteen points and that was a good enough to give him an american the gold medal of what's called a somewhat on a second run scored and a pretty boys and i didn't add up. as the usa i called golden train at six gold medals so far that service on cnn breaks. also on board to the gold medal of the sentencing for the usa having the women's two man sorry to win enough votes away. the americans that sitting at red gold of the om on the bus or on the mouth of tehran's they have a ten second lead. then there's rivals canada have a second runs taking place on wednesday buffaloes on the hee

you had a gold standard of gold was the medium of exchange on a global basis and that broke down and it led to world war one is that it fairly. common accepted wisdom by historians that world war one because a lot of people talk about world war one and they say it was you know the archduke ferdinand sas native you know it was an accident and you know it's the hundredth anniversary right i mean but it can he said can we look back and say this this gold relationship and the break down as you describe it was really more i think part and parcel of why events you know i think i think world war one actually started for different reasons. you have the character of the kaiser and his cousins saw and also our kids are inspired by the way that max keiser different spelling indeed indeed the thing really sort of got out of control and it looked like world war one i mean it's still controversial today how it started so that was an accident and i don't think it directly had anything to do with gold the difference between the gold standard and the dollar as a reserve currency i

there is word tonight all of them together may create a gold mine for the creator. cecilia vega with the business news. >> reporter: every day, 83 million people get a craving to play candy crush, making it one of the most popular gaming apps out there. set to join the new york stock exchange, the maker could top $5 billion, more than twice as much as the company that brings america tootsie rolls. making it more high than the real thing. if you haven't played candy crush before, it's hard to understand how it's so addictive. the game is simple. you just swipe the candy colored pieces to make a match and people get hooked. many of them, women. they are 65% of candy crush's american audience. >> my name is darielle and i am a candy crush addict. >> oh, my gosh, i am addicted. >> reporter: they may be empty calories but the game comes with a price when the users pay to play. >> as soon as i got the itunes gift card, i spent it in a matter of a day on candy crush. >> reporter: it's paid off for the company. profits searched to nearly $570 million. proofing just how much

gold was down 20% and silver down 36%. we had abanks warning that old would be going down just lastto winter, week, morgan stanley said more pain ahead. what is your take on that? >> i don't think so. when you look at gold, there are two separate pieces. investors in gold have been investing in a lot of electronic derivatives and proxies for gold. the east has been buying a lot of physical gold. that demand has gone up. china in 2013 look like they bought 1000 tons, making them the number one buyer of gold in the world. >> do you have a concern about a possible gold shortage? >> absolutely. >> my parents are chinese. when they buy gold, they hold for the long-term. in a sense, they hoard it, because they want to generation. they are not in it for the quick pop, but western investors. there will be a shortage because the gold will not be coming back from east to west. >> higher inflation would help gold prices. inflation threshold has been set by the fed. they said it is at two percent. is enough attention being paid to inflationary

gold medal ways. an average of five hundred twenty five hundred forty grams a paralympic gold medal is about six hundred seventy just six hundred eighty grams but the reason for the weight difference between olympic gold medals is because the titles of different sport disciplines vary in length they have to be engraved which means that the longer the title of the disappointed the lighter them. no matter what their weight each one takes a staggering eighteen hours to make it starts on the late the medals are cut to the right size a special machine creates their icy looking center and the game's trademark patchwork quilt pattern is engraved reflecting russia's cultural diversity all part of twenty five different manufacturing steps a record thirteen hundred medals have been minted in this way for the sochi games where twelve new events will make their olympic debut it's been a big undertaking for russian jewelry manufacturer and a mass they've needed two tons of silver which is the main ingredient and it does mean the winners' medals are not worth their weight in gold which is only used as a final coating

so we're going to be hoping for a russian gold in the. but also the weather's taken a turn for the worse here in seoul and she had been beautiful sunshine cause havoc really up in rosa khutor and trust not be a pollyanna for some of the cross-country skiing events of the alpine events but this change of weather is actually had quite a severe consequences for the biathlon the mains must start was supposed to take place yesterday afternoon but it's been proposed and three times already and hopefully we're going to try and get it underway in around two hours time that's been postponed because of the fog and it's just very very cloudy out there the moments of the loud. complex rush of had a disappointing biathlon championship so far these olympics only one bronze medal so far for a country which really does excel that it was good he got on the chair in the men's individual but certainly they'll be hoping from the starts will sort of man and the women in action both today and obviously the relays coming on later to try and improve on that sally

medal story a silver medal at previous lympics but never won a gold and he's hoping for a very good start in what will be his last game. it was never my ultimate goal to set the record for the most appearances in a winter olympics but number seven is lucky in russia and hopefully i can use it to claim victory the olympics as such she will be my last i can go on and on due to the impact of the many injuries i've suffered in my sport and the effect they've had on me physically. so good luck to him but also good luck to an indian leisure there's a guy called. shiva keshav and he doesn't have the facilities that are used to them change careers had in order to practice he's actually had to put his lose your wheels back in india and practice coming down a mountain road simply because the facilities are there so perhaps it's fair to say that he's not much of a favorite in terms of medals but i'm sure he will become a big founds favorite the first set of medals is worth mentioning will be one in a few hours' time that will take place in the men's snowboarding slight style we do hope to see

well it's so locked of reporting on financial news we see it in the gold market the physical gold price is a lot higher than the paper price and very sixteen inches but the media will report on the paper price even though that's not the actual physical price of gold in china and india and around the world was changing in five ten fifteen percent higher prices they also choose to pick the absolute least interesting price or representative price for a big coin by picking on the mt gox price which is not the price of bitcoin why because they say the agenda here is clear banks don't want the competition they don't want good point is to exceed that central by. deal and money don't want a competitor they don't want to cryptocurrency they are going to report the news in a way that reflects their interests unfortunately there is no pure objective news source anymore except aside from the show now over at mt gox back to there and at the time of this reporting they're still up and operating they have deleted their entire twitter stream we don't know him by the time this airs they could have gone bust

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new film "amazon gold" documents a deadly twist in an's quest for gold. >> the jungle begin with aatch here and a patch here and a patch here and then there's chunks of trees here and chunks of tree there is and it's mud. because you have motors down over there. so we walk across here and come upon this enormous hole. >> the gold mining is an issue that's hit bigtime the image of peru and concern. >> mercury is one of the most toxic natural substances we know of. the amount of mercury that goes into gold mining is estimated to be on the order of about 30 tons per year. that's a tremendous amount of mercury. >> what we see today about gold mining are no different than the drug trade. illegal gold mining and drug trafficking and the mafias are tied to there. >> we went down to have a look at gold mining because gold mining is one of the underlying things that's destroying this enormous forest. >> what we're seeing here is an example of something that's happening where there's been a boom of destruction. > amazing. >> it has taken the miners a week to destroy a habitat that took milli

why is why he had an exile and first run scoring ninety two points and that was a good enough to give him an america gold medal wise for the somewhat on his second run scoring only forty points by didn't matter of us a god gold and claim their six gold medals so far. also could be gold medal number seven soon for the usa when the women's two men started to win. the americans setting a track record. on the first run and after two runs they have a ten second lead over their nearest rivals canada and a second runs taking place on wednesday all follows holland heels of a two man american bobsled team who won a silver medal yesterday behind the russians so obviously american doing very well on the sliding track the moment. so just to recap hard to choose the ease of a. america with six golds four silvers and ten bronze is twenty battles over all. caps on track to be the record they said in vancouver four years ago were one of thirty seven medals including nine golds very impressive now i understand there is a very big match up coming up between the u.s. and canada for women's hockey team usa was very disappoi

he wins a gold medal and told savannah a couple months ago in an interview, if he won a gold medal, heell, good on his promise, there he is. charlie white playing beautifully for us here. followed it up with a tweet writing, that one time i got strong armed into playing violin on the "today" show in sochi. #greatstories. and yes, he wrote out the word hashtag. we love him more for that. it worked. >> i know. >> he said bullied in any part there? >> no bullied. just strong armed. here's my favorite headline. comes to us from norwegian television, headline trouser crisis. curling pant we've all worn, made a lot of news here in sochi. well, the deal is they brought nine different pairs of the curling pants because they thought they had nine round robin matches. turns out, there was a tie-breaker, they didn't have a pair of pants. they had to repeat one pair. they went with the paint splattered look is one they went with. and guys, didn't work. this is it right here, they lost the tie-breaker, 6-5 and did not advance. so they thought they had it all gamed out and figured out with the pants

in sochi and six gold of ten olympics medals overall the thirty three year old led norway to a sweep of the podium with that is that yellow in silver and christine still must say that taking bronze but i can also won gold in the fifteen kilometers scale film and team classics prince. and the netherlands finished fifth in the medal table thanks to bed dominance in speed skating winning twenty three of the thirty six medals available including eight goals and four clean sweeps of the podium it rained worst one five medals in sochi two gold and three silver to become the most successful athlete in dutch olympic history at the age of just. and a final look at the medal table sees host russia talk with thirty three overall thirteen of them gold the country's best performance as we heard since lillehammer a nine hundred ninety four where eleven goals in twenty three medals were won norway finished second in sochi followed by canada the usa and the speed skating dutch and all that brings us to the halftime whistle but will soon be back with a draw for euro twenty sixteen plus m.m.a. i

trunk of his are already have a gold medal to their name in these games that's after the success i mention a few moments ago in the team event fifteen year old u.t. and it needs sky a shot to global fame after two full list performances in that event and she says that there weren't nerves ahead of her lympics debut. well sure i was very nervous and scared but added my singles event i'm more calm to be honest i've got used to it and singles is a completely different event. so let's take a look at the medals table and how it stands at the moment and you can see that it is norway who currently lead the way they are back on top but canada and the netherlands are now really not far behind. because probably a top newsmakers of the olympics russia's ice hockey team aka the red machine how they do it. while some of the world's most famous sporting names have been on show in sochi throughout the course of cheese day russia's ice hockey players were attending a press conference ahead of their first match in two days' time against slovenia now captain pavel datsyuk is here in sochi despite fitness co

and cold serve claiming a gold silver and a bronze go by convair silver in the relay just a day before.