It was a different story in the past ... sport (there were OIympic medals for art right up until 1948). Today, each Olympics Games tends to have several poster designs commissioned to honour ...

in designing awards worthy of this year's Olympic victors. In their design, the company decided to blend elements of the past with the present. But will the end product satisfy both medal winners ...

and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), medals for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games have to be made of the same materials and be of similar design, in the past, it was up to the local ...

Olympic medals are primarily silver, with gold medals plated in gold. This article details their composition and the ...

It may come as a surprise to hear, but Olympic medals weren't always handed out for sports achievements. Irish man Jack B Yeats' painting titled The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and ...

The mint in France responsible for producing medals for the 2024 Summer Olympics will replace some of the hardware given out to athletes following complaints of deterioration in the medal varnish.