A rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics is up for auction
A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis is being auctioned off as part of a larger collection of memorabilia ...
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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 ...