ATHERTON'S Keely Hodgkinson produced a phenomenal performance to win the Olympic 800m silver medal.

Lee Kiefer made history at the Tokyo Olympics with her gold medal win in the individual foil category.

Sotherton suffered nine years of injustice as her heptathlon bronze medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics - the high point of her entire career - lay in the possession of a Russian drugs cheat.

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Olympic gold medals are not made of solid gold. They're comprised of at least 92.5 percent silver, with gold making up only the plating on the outside.

The details of the sporting awards emerged after original medals from the the first modern Olympics staged in Athens in 1896 have been put up for auction.

Ágnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic medalist, died on Thursday at the age of 103. Per the Hungarian state news agency (h/t Bálint Dömötör of the…