Then Phelps rebounded, winning four gold medals and two silver medals, making him, with 22 medals, the most decorated Olympian of all time.
Gold and silver medals won by Jones at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton will also no longer be recognised as a result of the IAAF ruling.
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Both U.S. teams in Tuesday's semifinal matches won, setting up an all-American final for the first time ever and guaranteeing the U.S. will grab gold and silver medals.
Prior to arriving in Rochester, Rolston spent seven seasons as a head coach with USA Hockey's national program, leading the under-18 squad to three gold medals and a silver in four world championship appearances.
On Saturday, popular swimmer Ellie Simmonds' loss of her S6 100m freestyle title to USA's Victoria Arlen, despite recording a personal best, saw the 17-year-old finish the Games with a haul of two gold medals, a silver and a bronze.
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"Forget the word medals, " Ecclestone said, referring to his previous proposal that would see gold, silver and bronze medals awarded to the top three finishers.
Modern gold Olympic medals are plated with about six grams of gold, while the runners up medals are struck from pure silver.
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The designs of the gold, silver and bronze medals are set to be unveiled imminently.
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Gold, silver and bronze medals would be given to the top three finishers.
He wants the old points system scrapped in favour of gold, silver and bronze medals for the first three drivers to finish each race.
The silver medal - gold medals were not handed out until the 1904 games in St Louis - was never awarded due to the cancellation of the boating events as a result of bad weather.
In total, she has won 11 gold, eight silver and three bronze medals in her six Paralympic Games.
Overall, it was a good day for British runners with a best-ever tally of four gold, five silver and three bronze medals.
It is Hunt's first World Cup gold of the year and comes after silver medals in the events at Porec and Antalya.
He entered his first international science competition in the sixth grade and won a silver medal and then won gold medals in the 7th, 8th and 9th grades.
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Osayemi Oludamola was stripped of her 100m gold medal, Sade Abugan lost two silver medals and Samuel Okon, who was sixth in the men's 110m hurdles, also tested positive.
The U.S. win put an already unsurpassed Phelps at 22 total medals over three Olympic Games: 18 gold, two silver and two bronze.
Christopher Murray, professor of global health at the University of Washington who has worked on several rankings of national health-care systems, advocates a sliding scale for medals three points for gold, two for silver, one for bronze.
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Robertson and Emms won Olympic silver in 2004 before collecting Commonwealth and World gold medals in 2006.
She has earned a gold medal at the 2006 Winter Games in the Giant Slalon, 2 silver medals in the 2012 Winter Games, 7 World Cup Championships and 4 podium finishes in the World Championships of Downhill Skiing.
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Her finest year was 1992, where the Welshwoman won four gold medals at the Barcelona Paralympics in the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m, plus silver in the 4x100m relay, setting two world records in the process.
The 18-year-old gymnast won gold on the balance beam for the United States at the Beijing Games in 2008, alongside three more silver medals, installing herself as a poster child of US sporting success and garnering a host of accolades, as much for her likeable personality as her achievements.
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