No medals were awarded in the ancient Olympics. A olympic winner would received an olive wreath to wear on his head.The people who came second and third placing would received nothing :(. When the Olympics were revived in 1896 in Athens Greece, winners would received silver medals instead of gold medals. Eight years later, at the 1904 Games in St. Louis, gold replaced silver for first place. Today's gold medals actually are sterling silver covered with a thin coat of gold.
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Good try, but this info. is not about the Olympic medals - you can delete this post and try again....
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