Olympics and art?

There was a time when the Olympics awarded medals for architecture, poetry, music…

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1st September, 2012

At the fifth Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, Ode to Sport, by Georges Hohrod and Martin Eschbach, won France the gold medal for poetry. In the same year, an American athlete, who had won silver for shooting in London four years before and gold for the same event at Stockholm, mounted the podium to receive his second gold, this time for sculpture. For the next seven Olympics, medals were given for literature, architecture, music, painting and sculpture and occasionally for sub-sets of the same – one year town-planning scored a gold! In all, some 146 medals were won. Top of the ...

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