Through the 2008 Games in Beijing:
Summer: 44 (10 gold, 18 silver, 16 bronze) at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.
Winter: 24 (7 gold, 10 silver, 7 bronze) at the 2006 Games in Turin.
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Olympic athletes are not paid to participate, or receive monetary rewards for medals awarded.
Cindy Klassen, the Canadian speed skater, has a total of six Olympic medals. She won one gold, two silver, and three bronze medals during her Olympic career, which spanned the 2002, 2006, and 2010 Winter Games. Klassen is celebrated as one of the most decorated athletes in Canadian Olympic history.
Yes, but not by the International Olympic Committee. It's the various national sports organizations (including the local Olympic Committees) that give the athlethes prize money for medals won.
Many people believe that athletes should in fact get paid for winning Olympic medals. This is because they trained very hard.
The athletes in the first eight places in each Olympic event receive a diploma and public recognition. Only the first three receive medals.
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Speed skater Cindy Klassen and speed skater/cyclist Clara Hughes, the most decorated Canadian Olympic athletes with 6 medals each, were both born in Winnipeg.
In the 2012 Olympic Games, Caribbean athletes won a combined 15 gold medals, 12 silver medals and 18 bronze medals. Cuban athletes won the most gold medals with five, followed by the Jamaican athletes with four.
Canada won a Gold Medal, 5 Silver Medals, and 12 Bronze Medals for a total of 18 Medals for the 277 athletes represented by the Canadian Olympic Committee and were 13th in total medals for a country
Anyone that ran in the semi-final or final can win medals, up to six athletes. Two substitutions can be made between semi and final.
The athletes are unpaid, minus the prize money they receive for winning medals. Outside of the Olympics the various athletes' professional annual salaries sum to over $9.