At the time, athletes received silver medals for winning first place. The Olympics didn't introduce gold medals until 1904 ...

A first-place Olympic medal from the first modern Olympics was sold at auction for DKK 1,152,000 ($178,510), three times its high estimate, by the Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen Arts Auctioneers ...

Olympic medals still carry the aura of ancient treasure, but the metal story is colder than the podium moment. Modern first-place medals have not been solid gold for more than a century, and the last ...