U.S. becomes first nation to win 3,000 Olympic medals 01:23. There will be around 10,500 athletes competing in 329 medal events at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games — and they're all going for gold ...

Swimmer Michael Phelps still holds the record for most Olympic medals of all time, with 28. The 2024 Olympics in Paris are in full swing, as more than 10,000 athletes from around the world compete ...

But the medals are a symbol of achievement, and, when they have been sold, have gone for much higher prices—in 2021, a first-place medal from the 1896 Athens Olympic Games sold for more than ...

That makes a ranking by medals per 1m people a bit fairer (see chart 3). India, now the world’s most populous country, again comes last: its medal haul since 2000 is 0.0026 of a medal per 1m ...

She joined PEOPLE in 2021, ... Read on for a list of American athletes who've had their Olympic medals taken away, including why they were revoked. 01 of 07. Jim Thorpe, ...

How many Olympic medals does Simone Biles have? Biles has won 11 Olympic medals, seven of which are gold. The three most recent golds came at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the team final, all-around ...

Medals: See the final Olympic medal count, country by country, including firsts and comparisons to the 2020 Olympics. See the U.S. medals broken down by athletes , too.