A rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics sells for $545,371 at auction
A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis has been sold at auction for $545,371 as part of a larger collection of ...
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A brief history of the modern Olympics – and the winner's curse
The 1908 London Games were the first in which the modern Olympics began recognisably to ... protesters were killed by the army. The same year, two African-American athletes, Tommie Smith and ...
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100 Women: Do the Olympics have a gender gap?
There were no women athletes at the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896 ... But in the same year, something else happened - legislation called Title IX was passed by Congress.