From Athens, the torch boarded the “Belem,” a three-masted ship that dates back to 1896, the year of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens. The Belem transported the torch across the Mediterranean ...
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 ...
A gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, the first ever hosted in the United States, just sold for $545,371 at ...
Modern pentathlon events will take place at the Palace of Versailles, the iconic home to the court of Louis XIV. The first French site to be awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 1979, the gardens ...
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 ...