A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil was sold at auction for over half a million dollars, part of hundreds of lots of memorabilia from the Games over the decades, a firm ...

This marked the first Olympics where gold medals were introduced, with the U.S. dominating by winning 78 of 96 events.

Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon teamed up in Paris ("Team Cook ‘N Bacon") in synchronized diving to win America’s first medal of ...