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A podium sweep is when one team wins all available medals in a single event in a sporting event. At the highest level, that would be when one nation wins all the medals in the Summer Olympics Athletics. [1] Many Olympic sports or events do not allow three entries into a single event in the Olympics, making a sweep impossible.
A podium at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The medallists of the ladies' single figure skating : Mao Asada (left, silver ), Yuna Kim (center, gold ), Joannie Rochette (right, bronze ). Podiums were first used at the 1930 British Empire Games (now Commonwealth Games ) in Hamilton, Ontario and subsequently during the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake ...
Britain's Adam Burgess gets to the medal podium. In the canoe singles final, Great Britain's Adam Burgess won silver. The victory may have been even sweeter for Burgess after he finished 0.16 ...
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Photos of North and South Korean table tennis players posing for a selfie on the medal podium have gotten people across the globe talking, with some hailing it as a show of rare cross border harmony.
The Team USA men's gymnastics squad won a bronze medal in the team event Monday — and received a mysterious box in addition to its medals while on the podium. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images ...
At the 1932 Winter Olympics, medals were awarded in the closing ceremony, with athletes for each event in turn mounting the first-ever podium. At the 1960 Summer Olympics, competitors in the Stadio Olimpico received their medals immediately after each event for the first time; competitors at other venues came to the Stadio Olimpico the next day ...
Host nation Japan won 27 gold medals, surpassing its gold medal tally of 16 at both the 1964 and 2004 summer editions. [9] Athletes from that nation also won 58 medals overall, which eclipsed its record of 41 overall medals won at the previous Summer Olympics. [10] American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won the most gold medals at the Games with five ...