The amount of gold used to make a medal shrunk after each of the two World Wars, according to Olympic medal collector and expert Jim Greensfelder.
The two lightest-weight classes for the men and the women are on the line this weekend, and Japan should medal in each.
Alice and her sister Milly were each awarded the British Empire Medal last year for their charity efforts.
Each Nobel prize includes a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award.
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National Olympic Committees for each country generally do pay medal bonuses.
Each of them was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism above anything that could be captured in a Hollywood script.
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Each time we look at the medal table, we are encouraged to believe that we still have the capacity to punch above our weight in the world.
Each time the great swimmer mounted the medal stand to hear the national anthem, Phelps, his mother and scores of millions of Americans shed a patriotic tear.
The rivals kissed each other on the cheek after standing on the medal podium with China's Guo Wenjun, who won the gold medal in the event.
This will be the second time that two teams from the same country have faced each other in a women's beach volleyball gold-medal match.
In four-man, Holcomb's forte, his USA-1 team in the original Night Train the sled that won Olympic gold was a distant 10th at Sochi, behind three German teams, two Russian squads, and one each from Britain, Canada, Switzerland, and the gold medal-winning sled of Latvia.
Last summer, Royal Mail rushed out stamps of all gold medal winners from Team GB and Paralympics GB, within 24 hours of each athlete's victory.
When asked about the AIA, Scott Brown reported that each time Venturi has been put forward for the organization's highest honor, the Gold Medal, the couple responded as a team.
Thomas has improved each year since he turned his focus from the track - which brought him an Olympic team pursuit gold medal - to the road.
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