The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were supposed to show off American pride. Instead, they turned into a messy sideshow. The Olympics were attached to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, better known ...

BOSTON – 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 ...

Felix Carbaja de Soto of Cuba, a fourth-place finalist in the 1904 Olympic marathon race, ran in street shoes and clothes. Photos courtesy of Missouri Historical Society St. Louis hosted the first ...

BOSTON (AP) — A gold medal awarded to the winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, the first Games hosted on U.S. soil, is being auctioned off as part of hundreds of lots of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOSTON (AP) — A gold medal awarded at the ...

BOSTON (AP) -- A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil was sold at auction for more than half a million dollars, part of hundreds of lots of memorabilia from the Games over the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOSTON (AP) — A gold medal awarded to the ...