Some things are said to be worth their weight in gold. An Olympic gold medal isn’t one of them. That’s because it contains little actual Au. The International Olympic Committee requires gold ...

Michael Phelps has amassed the most gold medals for an individual competitor (male or female) in modern day Olympics history.

During the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Jessica Long took home two more gold medals to tie for the third most decorated Paralympic athlete of all time. Here's a look at the winningest Paralympians of ...

Entering the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, 71 current National Olympic Committees had never won an Olympic medal; 109 had never won Olympic gold. After this year's Games, that number has shrunk. 88 ...

The United States leads the world by far in most gold medals won in history, but a select few athletes who were — or still are — superstars in their sport carry a few more than most.

The International Olympic Committee does not present a single gold medal to the winning team in women’s basketball and ask them to rotate displaying it in their homes however they see fit.

Great Britain’s Jodie Grinham has become the first pregnant Paralympic athlete to win a medal. Grinham’s history making win was announced on the official Instagram account for the Paralympics ...

The women's basketball gold medal game will take place on Sunday, Aug. 10, at 9:30 a.m. ET. Who is playing in the gold medal game for women’s basketball at the 2024 Paris Olympics? The United States ...

6. Video of his victory shows him chasing down the track to his first gold medal win. Soon after, he bounds straight to the crowd towards Davis-Woodhall, who wraps him in a hug. "I can't believe I ...

Steve Serio, who helped the U.S.'s wheelchair basketball team to gold medals in the last two Paralympic Games, and Nicky Nieves, who helped Team USA win its first gold in sitting volleyball in ...