American swimmer Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals, breaking the record for the most gold medals won at a single Olympics.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Lodwick became the first American to win two gold medals at a single world championship.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Sprawling conglomerates such as Anglo American and Gencor have consolidated their various gold interests into single, gold-only firms, and spun them off.

ECONOMIST: South African gold mining

At the previous two Olympics held on their soil, Canadians had failed to win a single gold medal.

ECONOMIST: Sporting success and brash patriotism

Thanks to a massive stock of gold around the world relative to small annual new discoveries (flow), gold is the single best measure of money we have.

FORBES: The Great Cereal Box Robbery