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A. DIFFERENT IMAGES ON THE MEDALS
B. KINDNESS REWARDED WITH A MEDAL
C. THE HIDDEN MEANING OF THE MEDALS
D. THE CHANGING SHAPE OF THE MEDALS
E. MEDALS USED TO HELP PEOPLE IN NEED
F. DIFFERENT METALS USED TO MAKE THE MEDALS

 

LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT OLYMPIC MEDALS

4.1.

 
The modern Olympic Games have been held since 1896 but the first gold medals were given
to athletes in 1904. Interestingly, both the gold and silver medals awarded at the Olympic
Games nowadays are actually made of silver. The only difference between them is that in the
gold medals the silver is hidden under a thin layer of gold. The bronze medals contain mainly
copper and a very small amount of zinc.

4.2.

Other features of the medals have also changed over the years. For example, the first ones
showed Zeus holding the goddess Nike. Then there was just Nike. Next there were two
athletes. In 1928, Nike appeared again, with the Roman Colosseum in the background.
In 2004, the Greeks protested against this background because the Colosseum was not the
birthplace of the Olympics. Nowadays, Nike and the Greek Panathenaic Stadium are shown
on Olympic medals.

4.3.

Some sports fans are willing to pay a lot of money for Olympic medals at auctions, especially
if they have been won by famous sportspeople. The javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk put her
Tokyo 2020 silver medal up for auction to raise money for a seriously ill child. Anthony Ervin,
who won gold at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, put the medal on eBay in 2004. He
gave all the money he got for it to people who lost their homes in the Indian Ocean tsunami
of that year.

 

4.4.

It is not only winning that counts in sport. At the 1988 Olympic Games, a Canadian sailor,
Lawrence Lemieux, was in the lead in a boat race, but he stopped to help two other sailors
who had fallen out of their boats into the rough sea. He didn’t win the race but received
a special medal for sportsmanship. His generous act showed the true spirit of the Olympics.

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