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Olympic gold
TRUE or
FALSE?

medals are

solid gold

All that glitters is not gold,

and the Olympic medals are
no exception. The last time
the winners’ medals were

solid gold was at the Swedish GOLD
1.34%
games in 1912. It’s been COPPER
COPPER 6.16%
fool’s gold ever since. 7.5%

OLYMPIC FLAME
STERLING
SILVER 92.5%
SILVER

GOLD

What was
different about
the Olympics
in ancient
The ancient Greeks lit a sacred fire during Greece? Silver and bronze
did not exist in the
their Olympic Games. In 1936 a burning ancient Olympics.
torch was carried into the arena at the There was only one
modern Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Ever winner per event,
since, runners bring a torch lit at the ancient crowned with an
site of Olympia to the games to ignite a flame olive wreath from
a sacred tree near
that burns until the closing ceremony. the temple of Zeus
at Olympia.

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