A first-place silver medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 sold for $180,111 when ... Swimmer ...
New Jersey native George Mehnert, the gold medalist ahead of Cote, captured a second Olympic gold in Stockholm four years later. In 1904, the first modern Olympics held on U.S. soil featured seven ...
On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. Spectators were thrilled by ...
A first-place silver medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 sold ... six Olympic silver and bronze medals the same year, with the $166,779 raised going to an ...