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It goes way back in Olympic history when the aciant Greek didn't give medals, insted they gave amounts of gold coins of artifacts to the 1st place winner, then after a long term of years Silver and Bronze where asigned to 2nd and 3rd place Olympians silver coins to the 2nd and bronze artifact to the 3rd

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The 1904 Games in St. Louis

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