You can't make a blanket statement about all Olympic medals like that. Ironically, some of the most prestigious gold medals are indeed the product of human judgement: figure skating and gymnastics.
Both sports trade on the sexualization of young girls. Why do we even have a sport where the main criteria are older men passing judgment on young girls? The scoring system is vague/complex enough that the “victory” game in both sports is highly rigged anyway, so it’s more about politics than skill when deciding between the top few spots.
Obviously that's not the case.