A gold medal from the first Olympic games held in the U.S., awarded to American athlete Frederick Schule, recently sold for a ...

Laurel was used in early Olympic wreaths because it was from the evergreen family, so the leaves stayed fresh longer than leaves from deciduous trees. As an added bonus, laurel had a pleasant ...

The 1904 St. Louis Olympics medal, auctioned for $545,371, bears the inscription “Olympiad, 1904” and shows a victorious athlete holding a wreath on the front. On the other side, Nike ...

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

Inscribed with “Olympiad 1904,” the medal is emblazoned on one side with an imprint of an athlete victoriously hoisting the Olympic wreath and on the other with an image of Nike, the Greek ...