Lay the medals out in different ways to find the one that is the most pleasing to your eye. Purchase a frame and choose a background color. Straight pins or gluetac will hold the medals to the background. Attach the backing and enjoy your hard work.
Michael Phelps
Medals will be awarded in 98 competitions. There are multiple medals in many events, such as relays and team competitions.
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee was never stripped of her gold medals. She is a retired American track and field athlete who won multiple Olympic medals during her career, including two gold medals in the heptathlon event in 1988 and 1992.
Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. The International Olympic Committee stripped Thrope of his medals in late 1913.
There are scheduled to be 302 events competed in 28 sports. That would make a minimum of 906 medals to be won (I say minimum because if there is a tie for third place in an event, multiple bronze medals are awarded).
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That would be swimmer Michael Phelps of the United States who has won 14 gold medals ... 6 at the 2004 Games and 8 at the 2008 Games.
The names of the events are inscribed before the games, and there are procedures set up when multiple medals are awarded for a single competition. In some cases, this includes duplicates which can be replaced after being awarded. The individual winners will have their names added to their medals at a later date.