The goal of most Olympic Games athletes is to win a gold medal, though winning any medal, even making the Olympic Games at all, is a great achievement for most of them. Here are two lists, ranking athletes by who has won the most number of medals (any color), and also by gold meda...
Points and prize money matter more to Olympic holdoutsSome players who would automatically qualify for the Rio Gameshave decided to skip the event in...BEN ROTHENBERG
But Beth went on to become the first British woman to ever win an Olympic medal in individual women’s gymnastics. In a tense final at North Greenwich Arena, the 27-year-old earned a bronze medal after qualifying for the uneven bars final with one of the best routines of her life. ...
And while it admittedly weighed on her, "wondering where the money is going to come from," she raised enough—and won a gold medal in the women's BMX final. (Which you'dthinkwould be a wakeup call for UK Sport, which,according to theIndependent,doles out upward of $173 million in ...
"As usual, with USA Basketball, when we come together, we try to get on a path where we're just getting better and better every day on the journey. I still think there's another level we can get to, and I hope that's what happens in [the gold-meda...
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The sponsor of this British delegation is Adidas, but Nike sponsors Cavendish, who may win the first British gold medal, and has exchanged loyalty through years of cooperation. Although the British Olympic Organizing Committee has strict requirements for sportsmen to receive the award, Cavendish has...
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At least, that’s what his two Olympic gold medals would’ve earned him in prize money under his own radical plans for Paris 2024. The World Athletics president said that gold medallists in track and field will earn $50,000 each this summer, making the federation the first to award prize...