The medals were started in 1896. The very first medals in the Olympics were given in 1896 Olympics were made of silver, and the winner was presented with an olive branch. In the same Olympic Games ...

Although much has changed since the first modern-day Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896, one thing that has remained constant is an athlete’s pursuit for the medals table in the name of ...

The sport was actually on the program at the 1896 Olympics in Athens but was canceled due ... U.S. rowers have earned 89 rowing medals since the 1900 Olympic Games, the most of any nation. Americans ...

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 ...

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 ...

A medal from the first modern Olympic Games held in at the 1896 Athens is expected to sell for around $30,000 at an upcoming auction in September. Ben Jones, from Mullock’s Auctioneers ...

with the goal of staging the first modern Olympics in Paris in 1900. Pressed by Coubertin, the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance ...

Gold, silver, and bronze medals weren't always the standard at the Olympics. The first Summer Games began in Athens, Greece in 1896, but gold medals weren't introduced until 1904 in St. Louis in ...

Since the advent of the modern-day Olympics in 1896 ... below shows the progression of gold medalists' times for the 200-meter freestyle swim since 1896. Use the zoom controls at the top right ...