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A rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics sells for $545,371 at auction

Jan. 17, 2025 09:35 AM EST

BOSTON (AP) — A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil was sold at auction for over half a million dollars, part of hundreds of lots of memorabilia from the Games over the decades, a firm announced Friday. The 1904 St. Louis Olympics medal, auctioned for...

British track and field body charged with corporate manslaughter over Paralympic athlete's death

Jan. 08, 2025 11:31 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — The governing body for track and field in Britain and a sports official have been charged with manslaughter over the death of a Paralympic athlete who was hit on the head by a metal pole during training in 2017. The 36-year-old thrower Abdullah Hayayei, who...