From how they're made to what inspired this year's design, here's what to know about the medals athletes are hoping to bring home from the Milan Cortina Olympics.

ATLANTA — Some Olympic traditions never change, but the look of Olympic medals can be very different from one Olympic Games to the next. For decades, the design of the medals at the Summer Olympics ...

Patricia Moore ’74 (industrial design) has been recognized in countless ways for her pioneering design work and immeasurable impact as a thought leader. In October, her latest honor was formalized ...

Paris 2024 called on LVMH jeweler Chaumet to design its medals. Globally renowned for its craftsmanship, Chaumet has made the medal into a veritable jewel, with a construction conceived around three ...

This year's Olympic medal design takes its inspiration from the Korean alphabet, as well as from traditional clothing and architecture. What’s the most important part of the Olympics? Although the ...

“The Roar of Youth” – a striking design by 26-year-old Spanish designer Pilar Barbadillo Vicario – has been selected for the obverse of the medals for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games (YOG). The ...

Heading into the Olympics it's pretty easy to think that all medals just look the same. After all, they are all medals, right? The only thing that matters to most people is the color they are — either ...

The medal design for the 2012 London Olympics was released on Wednesday at a ceremony celebrating one year to go before next summer's Opening Ceremony. Weighing in at around 14 ounces, the medals are ...

A metallurgist weighs in on possible reasons behind the bronze medal deterioration and what could be done to mitigate a similar problem at the 2024 Paralympic Games. The tradition of awarding highly ...