A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil has sold at auction for over half a million dollars.

Unlike Olympic medals these days which are mostly made of silver with gold plating, these were smaller and made entirely of ...

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, highly appreciated the pentathlon of the ancient Games. He proposed a similar competition that would test the strengths of a “complete” ...

It took the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, to forge peace by moving the Olympics 300 miles south. If that drama weren’t enough, Fred Lorz looked to have won the ...

It took the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, to forge peace by moving the Olympics 300 miles (483 kilometers) south. If that drama weren't enough, Fred Lorz looked to ...

It took the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, to forge peace by moving the Olympics 300 miles (483 kilometers) south. This Nov. 2024 image provided by RR Auction shows a ...