Olympic medals

How much are Olympic athletes paid for winning gold medals? The United States gives athletes who win gold $37,500, while one European country awards six figures. Get the details here. NBCLX’s Fernando Hurtado and Ngozi Ekeledo also explain what “getting lost” means in aerial skiing and show us just how big the halfpipe is.

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From the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002 to the Pyeongchang Winter Games in 2018, over 1,300 medals have been awarded to athletes from around the world in the last five Winter Olympics. These are the countries that have won the most of these coveted medals.

Here is a guide to the history of Olympic medals, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics medal design and what Olympians do with their hardware.

The 2022 Winter Olympics officially began with the opening ceremony on Friday in Beijing. Now, it’s time to win some medals. Over 300 medals will be awarded over the course of the Games, and the first will be handed out early on Saturday morning. Here’s a look at the first sports where medal events will take place, and some of…

Which Winter Olympian has the most medals of all-time? Check out the 12 most decorated competitors ahead of the 2022 Beijing Games.

From countries that regularly win Olympic medals, like the USA, to others still eyeing that first gold, here are the most and least decorated countries.

The 25-year-old sold the medal, which was her first Olympic medal, for $125,000 to help raise money for the surgery needed for the Polish boy.

Out of Team USA’s 113 total medals, women earned 66, men earned 41, and six were from mixed events.

Of the United States’ 113 medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the women of Team USA earned 66 of them.

In Saturday’s soccer tournament that went into overtime, Brazil took home the gold and Spain took the silver.

The new sports that debuted at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics proved to be no problem for the United States. Team USA earned a medal in every single Olympic sport that made its first appearance at the Tokyo Games. Across 3×3 basketball, surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing and karate, the U.S. won six medals. In addition to those new sports, baseball and…

For many Olympic athletes, making a living means relying on sponsorships and prize money from competitions. Here’s a breakdown of how Olympians earn money and how much.

Joe Kovacs made a huge mistake after winning his first Olympic medal, a silver in men’s shot put in 2016. After earning the medal, Kovacs was given a wooden case to store it for safekeeping. The wood, apparently, rubbed against the medal when the case opened and left the medal with scratches all over. “My silver medal from Rio looks…

Simone Biles has long been considered one of the greatest gymnasts ever, and now she has the medals to back that up

After starting Day 1 of the Tokyo Olympics with no medals for the first time since 1972, the United States steadily climbed the medal leaderboard and cemented its place atop the medal throne in both overall medal count and gold medals. Team USA has held the lead at the 2020 Tokyo Games in overall medals since Day 4 and finished…

United States athletes at the Olympics often are draped in red, white and blue … and gold.  The U.S. reached a historic milestone by capturing its 1,000th gold medal in the history of the Olympic Games at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. It was the continuation of the United States’ history of global domination at the Olympics, with a record-setting…

The medals are the result of a nationwide movement in Japan to turn trash into gleaming gold, silver, and bronze. The victory bouquets for the Athletes also have a special meaning. Sam Brock reports.

The United States women’s 4x100m freestyle relay team has its sight set on a gold medal in Saturday night’s final.

The United States is by far the winningest country in the history of the Olympic Games, taking home 1,022 gold medals since 1896. While the nation has dominated in the pool, on the track and throughout the Olympics as a whole, there are a handful of sports where no American has ever stepped on the podium. The U.S. will have…