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The Olympic medals are designed especially for each individual Olympic Games by the host city's organizing committee.
The host city is responsible for providing all the medals.
Solid Gold Medals were last handed out at the V Olympiadin Stockholm in 1912.
The Medals: The Olympic medals are designed especially for each individual Olympic Games by the host city's organizing committee. Each medal must be at least three millimeters thick and 60 millimeters in diameter. Also, the gold and silver Olympic medals must be made out of 92.5 percent silver, with the gold medal covered in six grams of gold.
Short track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno has won 2 Olympic gold medals. 1) 1500 meters at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. 2) 500 meters at the 2006 Games in Turin. He has also won 2 silver medals and 3 bronze medals for a total of 7 Olympic medals won.
The 2002 Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Germany won the most medals with 35.
The 1968 Olympic games were hosted in Mexico City, Mexico. The United States won the most medals, followed by the Soviet Union and Hungary.
The Olympic medals are designed especially for each individual Olympic Games by the host city's organizing committee. Each medal must be at least three millimeters thick and 60 millimeters in diameter. Also, the gold and silver Olympic medals must be made out of 92.5 percent silver, with the gold medal covered in six grams of gold. (sjt)
10 as of the end of day 15 of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Before then it was a tie of 7 in Salt Lake City in 2002 and Turin in 2006.
They called it Olympic and they named it after the city where they held the Olympics called Olympia!