Photos of all Olympic medal designs since 1896

Olympic Medals
We got this via email from Josh at medalcount.com:
[Olympic medals] used to be mighty impressive, what you'd expect to earn after 4 years of hard work.

The most recent medals, well, perhaps not. I present:

Exhibit A: The Beijing air hockey puck
Exhibit B: The Torino 2006 cracked DVD

So I've put up picture galleries of every Olympic medal ever made. The winter ones, I dare say, tend to be more stylish. Of course, there's a most interesting Summer 1972 medal that would make for a fine t-shirt.

P.S. Make sure to look at the reverse side ... usually much more interesting.

You can find the winter Olympic medal gallery here and the summer Olympic medal gallery here.

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