Carving History: The story behind engraved names on Olympic Stadium Walls

Every athlete dreams of claiming glory and script history after winning a medal in the Olympic Games. However, there's a lot more than just a medal that an Olympic winner gets.

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Olympians on Stadium walls

Olympians on Stadium walls

Highlights:

Olympic medal winners script their names in history.

Along with medal their names are engraved in the walls of Stadium

The ultimate destination of every athlete is to raise the flag of his country in the Olympics. Millions of players spend their entire lives to stand at the top of the podium with a medal around their neck. Some of them even reach that stage and those who reach the Olympic podium, their names are recorded in the pages of history forever. Along with the medal, they get name and fame. Athletes not only get immortal in pages of history, but they also get a place on the wall of the stadium. 

 

Thousands of players compete in the Olympics, but only a few of them can write their names in history. The name of the player who wins the medal can be recorded in the Olympic history as well as in the history of his country. The names of many players have become immortal across the years.

 

First medal of the modern Olympics was given in 1896

 

There are many such stories in the hundreds of years-long history of the Olympics, which are difficult to believe. However, giving medals to the winners started with the first modern Olympics in 1896. After this, the design and size of the medal kept changing with time.

 

Medalist's name on the stadium wall

 

When a player raises the flag of his country in the Olympics and comes on the podium, he is honored by giving the Olympic mascot and bouquet along with the most prestigious medal, which the winner brings back to his country, but very few people would know that in the stadium where that player created history and won the medal, that player's name gets engraved on those walls.

 

Olympic medal winners are not only included in the history of their country and the Olympics but their names are also written on the walls of the stadium in which the player won the medal. His legacy is forever engraved in stone on the stadium wall, which inspires the coming generations to chase their dreams and try to claim the glory as many before them have done.

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