Athletics Quote by Ron Pickering

Nobody wants to lose medals. They mean a lot and when they get taken away from you it's tough.

— Reece James

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.

— Mary Lou Retton

There are not going to be medals passed out to everybody in the world. It is going to be passed out to one person,…

— Justin Gatlin

“Bricks, bricks, and bricks could be given away at the Olympics, instead of gold, silver, and bronze medals. If all a champion wants is…

— Jarod Kintz

Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.

— Pierre de Coubertin

“They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.”

— Steve Backley

You don't just go and pick up a gold medal anymore.

— Anne Donovan

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

— Yohan Blake

Every time a medal is won on the national or international platform, our country really enjoys winners but we don't appreciate the effort that…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or…

— George Packer

The dynamic has really changed in the U.S. Americans believe they can be competitive, that they can win medals.

— Alberto Salazar

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't…

— Dick Ebersol