AN OLD BRONZE MEDAL.

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in the ancient times the were no rich advertising contracts with shoe companies or other deals. the athletes usually competed for pride, patriotism, and religious honor. although some of these athletes were paid with large amounts of money, up to ten times more than a annual salary of soldier. the Olympic winners received an olive tree branch. the branches that the athletes receive is cut from a branch from the backyard of the temple of zues and were supposably planted by Hercules. Sometimes the victor of the games would get a ribbon to put around their head-this would b a temporary prize until the end of the games. info from:http://www.richeast.org/htwm/Olympics/olympics.html

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the winners of the games show the ancient coliseum's and the goddess of victory holding the laurel crowns on the obverse side which is engraved 'XXIVTH Olympiad Seoul. the back side shows a pigeon(the symbol of peace) soaring up holding a laurel branch in its mouth and the Seoul Olympic composed to three Taeguk patterns from the Korean flag and five olympic rings. the medals were manufactured. the gold took up to 92.5% of the content of the gold medal which was gilded with 5 grams or more. it was 60mm in diameter and weighed around 145 grams. the silver took up to 92.5% of the silver medal and the other 7.5% is bronze. it was 60mm in diameter like the gold medal but weighs 5 grams less. the bronze medal contained 95% of bronze, 4% of copper and 1% of copper. it was also 60mm in diameter. info and pic from:http://olympic-museum.de/w_medals/wmed1988.htm

the idea of the Olympic torch came was first inaugurated on the 1928 Olympic games in Amsterdam. the design of the Los Angeles coliseum was also included a facility of a large flame. there wasn't any torch relay in the ancient Olympics. However there were known to do other torch relays in other ancient Greek festivals:http://usd316.k12.ks.us/projectfolder/Niki2002/Olympics/modernolympics.html

the Olympic torch was first instituted in 1933: http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/olympics/olympicorigins.shtml

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the five ringed symbol represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes throughout the world at the olympics. Many believe that the colors of the olympic rings : blue,black,red,yellow and green on a white field are used because at least one of the colors are in each of the flags of the athletes nations participating in the Olympic. the five uniting rings express the continents brought together by the olympics.