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There are at least 180 out athletes competing in Tokyo in nearly every sport, according to Outsports. That’s three times more than the 56 openly out athletes at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

The medal is the highest honor Congress can bestow.

Winning an Olympic medal is a dream for so many athletes, but it also comes with a pretty big payout — one that varies, depending on what country you’re from.

“Sorry I wasn’t on my phone,” is the text swimmer Lydia Jacoby sent her family group chat after winning a gold medal. “I was at doping [testing] and media.” Hear what other athletes’ first texts were and who they were addressed to.

After starting Day 1 of the Tokyo Olympics with no medals for the first time since 1972, the United States steadily climbed the medal leaderboard and cemented its place atop the medal throne in both overall medal count and gold medals. Team USA has held the lead at the 2020 Tokyo Games in overall medals since Day 4 and finished…

Team USA divers Delaney Schnell and Jessica Parratto won silver in the women’s 10m synchronized platform diving competition, the first time the U.S. has medaled in the event.

The Tokyo Olympics will feature thousands of athletes representing a wide variety of countries from across the globe. Some of those countries are perennial medal winners, with their flags constantly getting waved and worn by their athletes on the podium. And when it comes to the Tokyo Olympics, the expectations for those countries haven’t changed.  However, not every country...

The United States dominates in terms of gold medals with over 1,060 of them won since the first game in Athens, but could the nation’s success at the Olympics be based around sending more athletes than their competitors?

Why do Olympians bite their medals? The answer to that and more as we take a deep dive into the history of Olympic medals.

The U.S. reached a historic milestone by capturing its 1,000th gold medal in the history of the Olympic Games at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. It was the continuation of the United States’ history of global domination at the Olympics.

The nearly 200-lot sale hosted by Boston-based RR Auction includes a gold medal won by the 1984 U.S. men’s basketball team and several Olympic torches, including one used during last year’s torch relay before it was shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Michael Phelps tops the list of most decorated Olympians in history – and it’s really not even close.

From countries that regularly win Olympic medals, like the USA, to others still eyeing that first gold, here are the most and least decorated countries.

The IOC has released guidance on how they will handle awarding medals at the Tokyo Olympics.

See the designs and history of all modern Olympic medals that have been presented to champions since the 1896 Olympic Games.