Unlike Olympic medals these days which are mostly made of silver with gold plating, these were smaller and made entirely of ...

The Olympic ... for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance, especially from the government of Greece. But when Georgios Averoff of Alexandria donated 920,000 gold ...

In one of the biggest upsets in Olympic cycling history, Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria won the women's road race Sunday afternoon in Japan to capture her nation's first Olympic medal since the inaugural ...

Although much has changed since the first modern-day Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, one thing that ... which is looking for its 17th gold medal – and fifth consecutive – in Paris ...

Rowing made its Olympic debut at the 1900 Paris Games. The sport was actually on the program at the 1896 Olympics in Athens ... the most of any rower (five gold, two silver, one bronze). Impressively, ...

A first-place silver medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 sold for $180,111 when it was put up for auction in 2021 and a gold medal from the 2010 Winter Olympics in ...