Deseret News archives: First Winter Olympics figure skating medal awarded on this day 101 years ago
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 30, 1924, Gillis Grafström of Sweden ...
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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, ...
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When was running invented?
Is running a tale as old as time? Pretty much. Here's Olympian and running coach Steph Davis with a brief history of ...
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This day in history
On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. Spectators were thrilled by ...
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 ...
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A rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics is up for auction
This was the first Olympics where gold medals ... against a second international event held simultaneously. Fair organizers ...
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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 ...
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A rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics is up for auction
This was the first Olympics where ... international event held simultaneously. Fair organizers threatened to host their own athletic events. It took the founder of the modern Olympic movement ...