Rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics sells big at auction
A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil has sold at auction for over half a million dollars.
Olympic Push For Kho Kho, India's Ancient Tag Sport
The ancient game of kho kho is enjoying a resurgence in India, with organisers of the first international tournament hoping their efforts will secure the sport's place in the Olympics.
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A rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics is up for auction
On the other side, Nike, the goddess of victory in ancient Greek mythology ... includes the original ribbon and leather case.
An Ancient Headless Statue Is Found Amid Trash in Greece
On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...
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One of the first Olympic gold medals ever awarded will soon be auctioned
The auction house selling the medal, RR Auction, said that the 1904 Olympics were significant for multiple reasons. First, it was the first Olympic events that awarded gold, silver, and bronze ...
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Will Russia’s Olympic ban lift in time for Alex Ovechkin to play in 2026?
Next winter, NHL players will participate in the Olympics for the first time in 12 years when the hockey competition takes place in Milan. But there is a growing possibility that Washington ...
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Ágnes Keleti, oldest living Olympic medal winner and Holocaust survivor, dies at 103
The 103-year-old Hungarian died in Budapest, according to Olympics.com. Keleti died after having been taken to a hospital in a critical condition with pneumonia on Christmas Day. Keleti won a ...
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The Smell of Sweat: Greek Athletics, Olympics, and Culture
a very ;sea CD attached to the book, containing a great many of Blake Tyrrell's original sources in translation. The Ancient Olympics by Nigel Spivey (Cambridge) is a much better organised attempt at ...
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Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD
Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research co-led by a UCL and Francis ...
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Jordan Chiles flaunts Olympic medal in New Year's post amid ongoing appeal over losing bronze to Romania
Team USA and gymnast Jordan Chiles didn't let the withdrawal of her Olympic bronze medal stop them from showing off her team gold on Tuesday. In a New Year's Eve post to celebrate the medals that ...
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Ancient Olympics: Let the Games Begin (2004)
Come back with us to Ancient Greece, 2,500 Years ago to the original Olympic Games. The ancient Games, like our modern Olympics, included champions and cheaters, glory and scandals, bitter ...
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Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD
Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD. ScienceDaily . Retrieved January 25, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250101132012.htm ...