Olympic medals

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…

The first medals of the Tokyo Olympics have been awarded. Yang Qian, Anastasiia Galashina and Christen Nina were awarded gold, silver and bronze medals respectively in women’s 10m air rifle.

Here is a look at the history of Olympic medals, what they are going to look like in Tokyo and what athletes do with the iconic hardware

The Tokyo Olympics will feature thousands of athletes representing a wide variety of countries from across the globe. Some of those countries are perennial medal winners, with their flags constantly getting waved and worn by their athletes on the podium. And when it comes to the Tokyo Olympics, the expectations for those countries haven’t changed.  However, not every country...

All Summer Olympic medals feature the same Greek goddess: Nike, the goddess of victory. Watch to learn why this figure of ancient Greek mythology became a fixture in the Olympic Summer Games.

Let’s take a look at which athletes have brought home the most medals in Olympic history

Why do Olympians bite their medals? The answer to that and more as we take a deep dive into the history of Olympic medals.

The announcement comes on the heels of the Tokyo Olympics’ organizers banning spectators from the Summer Games.