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Rare Athens 1896 Olympic medal sold at auction for $65,000 (www.insidethegames.biz)

The medal had been awarded to Greece’s Georgios Tsitas after he finished as the runner-up in the Greco-Roman wrestling event at the first modern Olympic Games at Athens in 1896.

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