The International Olympic Committee (IOC) mandates that gold medals contain at least 92.5% silver and have a plating of at least 6 grams of pure gold. This combination ensures that while the ...

Each event hands out three honors: gold, silver, and bronze. With so many medals handed out each Olympics, it raises the ...

An Olympic medal ... to return faulty medals and have them replaced. Six athletes, including Diehm, have reported problems with their medals. None of the dodgy medals are gold.

‘I Can't Do That for Breakfast' Katie Ledecky Reveals the Hiding Spot She Has for the Gold Medals She Won at the 2024 Olympics ...

BOSTON — A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil was sold at auction for over half a million dollars, part of hundreds of lots of memorabilia from the Games over the ...

A rare 1904 Olympic gold medal from the St. Louis Games. / RR Auction A gold medal handed out at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis sold for a staggering $545,371, making it the third-highest ...

Do Olympic gold medal times matter? The truth is, the Games are more about the moment and coming through when it matters most ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. This Nov. 2024 image provided by RR Auction shows a rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics at the intake office of RR Auction ...