Gold medal articles
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Aroostook County ‘Rosie the Riveter’ gets Congressional Gold Medal
In Maine alone, 2,000 women worked at Bath Iron Works and 3,700 women worked at a South Portland shipyard building Liberty ships.
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Classes 1A and 6A take home 5 gold medals at State Meet
AUSTIN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Rio Grande Valley brought home six medals in the final day of 2024 UIL Track and Field State Meet. In Class 1A, Lasara senior Xiomara Rodriguez earned two gold medals in the girls’ shot put and discus. Rodriguez threw a personal best, 154.7 feet, to capture the discus championship, but []
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Dutch gold medal winning figure skater Sjoukje Dijkstra dies at 82
Sjoukje Dijkstra, the figure skater who in 1964 became the first Dutch athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics, has died at the age of 82.