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A Rare Gold Medal From The 1904 Olympics In St. Louis Just Sold For Over $500,000 At Auction
The 1904 Olympics were the first to take place in the United States, and they established the tradition of awarding gold, ...
Wiltshire's Olympic champion Kate French confirms retirement
Wiltshire's Olympic hero Kate French has announced her retirement from the modern pentathlon. French, who was born in Kent but is now based in Wiltshire, won Olympic gold in the event at the Tokyo ...
Rare 1904 Olympic Gold Medal Auctioned for Astonishing Sum
It was sold by RR Auctions for a whopping $545,371. Bobby Eaton, the firm’s Olympic specialist, told the AP that medals from ...
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This Rare Gold Medal From the 1904 Olympics Sold for More Than $500,000
The artifact, from the first Games held in the United States, reaped the third-highest price ever fetched for an Olympic medal at auction ...
Rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics sells big at auction
A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil has sold at auction for over half a million dollars.
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Marathons Are 26.2 Miles Because of This Famous Moment in Olympic Games History
The history of the marathon's distance is rooted in the very spirit for which the Olympics were created, and an event that ...