Did you know medals were not awarded during ancient Olympic games? Instead winners were given olive wreaths. The medal tradition began during the first modern Olympics in 1896 where first place winners received silver, second place received bronze, and third place winners left empty handed. Throughout history the Olympic medals have been many shapes and sizes with today’s gold medals being silver covered with 6 grams of 24 karat-gold. The Winter Olympic medals have no standard design and have even been made of glass. This year’s Winter Olympic medals have a unique undulating shape said to reflect the Vancouver landscape. Even more unique, the medals were crafted from melted circuit boards. Canadian artists Corrine Hunt and Omer Abel designed the medals with each medal being laser etched and are all composed of materials from recycled electronics. As of today the U.S. leads with most gold medals, 7, and total medals, 24.
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Gold has been prized by people since the earliest times for making statues and icons and also for jewelry to adorn their bodies,so not too surprised when they decided to award it to winners of Olympics. I am quite positive that USA will win the most gold medal this year,looking at the turn out already.
I will love to win a gold medal. I might end up selling it when I am broke though