From how they're made to what inspired this year's design, here's what to know about the medals athletes are hoping to bring home from the Milan Cortina Olympics.

ATLANTA — Some Olympic traditions never change, but the look of Olympic medals can be very different from one Olympic Games to the next. For decades, the design of the medals at the Summer Olympics ...

Paris 2024 called on LVMH jeweler Chaumet to design its medals. Globally renowned for its craftsmanship, Chaumet has made the medal into a veritable jewel, with a construction conceived around three ...

Heading into the Olympics it's pretty easy to think that all medals just look the same. After all, they are all medals, right? The only thing that matters to most people is the color they are — either ...

Here is a guide to the history of Olympic medals, the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics medal design and what Olympians do ...

This year's Olympic medal design takes its inspiration from the Korean alphabet, as well as from traditional clothing and architecture. What’s the most important part of the Olympics? Although the ...

The medals for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing are finally here, and like the designs that have come before them, they're extraordinarily meaningful. Each gold, silver, and bronze medal features a ...

The medal design for the 2012 London Olympics was released on Wednesday at a ceremony celebrating one year to go before next summer's Opening Ceremony. Weighing in at around 14 ounces, the medals are ...

“The Roar of Youth” – a striking design by 26-year-old Spanish designer Pilar Barbadillo Vicario – has been selected for the obverse of the medals for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games (YOG). The ...

A metallurgist weighs in on possible reasons behind the bronze medal deterioration and what could be done to mitigate a similar problem at the 2024 Paralympic Games. The tradition of awarding highly ...