Olympic medal Altius, Fortius" features on four Winter Games medals but does not appear on any Summer Games medal. For three events in a row, hosts of the Winter Games included different materials in the medals: glass (1992), sparagmite (1994), and lacquer (1998). It was not until the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China that a Summer Olympic host chose to use something different, in this case jade. While every Summer Olympic medal except for the 1900 Games has been circular, the shapes of the Winter Games have been considerably more varied. The Winter Games medals are also generally larger, thicker, and
Faster Pussycat cancer sidelined him in late summer of 2005 and he was temporarily replaced by Michael Thomas, an arrangement which would become permanent when Muscat chose not to return to the lineup. In December 2006, three former original Faster Pussycat members - Brent Muscat, Eric Stacy and Brett Bradshaw - alongside The Underground Rebels vocalist Kurt Frohlich and Sin City Sinners guitarist Todd Kerns began performing under the name Faster Pussycat, creating two versions of the band, both claiming to be the original. Muscat claimed this was to allow fans to hear Faster Pussycat tracks played the way they were originally