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The Olympics started giving out medals instead of olive wreaths at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, United States. This change was made to provide a more tangible and lasting symbol of achievement for the athletes. The first-place winners were awarded gold medals, second-place winners received silver medals, and third-place winners were given bronze medals.
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When did America first participate in the Olympic games?
The United States won the bid to host the Olympic Games several times. These includes 1904 in St. Louis, Lake Placid in 1932, Squaw Valley in 1960, Atlanta in 1996, and Salt Lake City in 2002.
Did Jim thorpe keep his medals?
Jim Thorpe played professional baseball in 1909 and 1910. Although the Olympic rules of 1912 didn't forbade anyone athlete who played professionally, the Amateur Athletic Union, in 1913, retro-actively stripped Thrope of his medals. Thorpe wrote a letter asking to be excused: "I hope I will be partly excused by the fact that I was simply an Indian schoolboy and did not know all about such things. In fact, I did not know that I was doing wrong, because I was doing what I knew several other college men had done, except that they did not use their own names." The 1912 rules also states if anyone objected to the winner's medals, a complaint must be made within 30 days after the medals are awarded; the complaint was made in 1913-- six months after the games. In 1982, after the support of U.S. Congress, Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals were re-instated to him with two of Thorpe's children receiving commemorative medals. The original two medals awarded to Jim Thrope were stolen from a museum. The United States was a overtly racist society at that time, and it is widely believed he was stripped of his medals because of racism.
What is the value of the Franklin Mint Presidential Commemorative Medals American Express Edition?
500
Where can The Franklin Mint Treasury of Presidential Commemorative Medals American Express Edition be found?
In my attic.
What happened to Wilma Rudolph when she was a child to make her three olympic gold medals more amazing?
She had polio in her legs.
