Team USA Downhill Skiing medallion for the Nagano Winter Olympic Games, 1998
date: label: date made
content: 1998
name: label: maker
content: General Mills Cereals
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Silver colored medallion enclosed in original packaging. Packaging is red, white and blue with blue and white lettering - "GENERAL MILLS PROUD SPONSOR U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM [/] DOWNHILL SKIING". The medallion depicts the American flag in the background and a downhill skiier in the foreground - "NAGANO 1998 [/] USA [/] DOWNHILL SKIING".
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 1998 Winter Olympics, also known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad were held in Nagano, Japan with 72 countries, 1,389 men and 787 women athletes participating. American figure skater Tara Lipinski became the youngest gold medalist in Olympic history at 15. Snowboarding was included at these Games with American Shannon Dunn becoming the first American to win a medal in the sport, taking the bronze in the Women’s giant slalom. Speed skating athletes could use clap skates for the first time at these Games, setting twelve Olympic and five World records. Germany won the medal count with 29 with the Americans taking fifth place with 13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Olympics
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: web subject
content: Collectors
label: related event
content: Olympic Winter Games: Nagano, 1998
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Advertising
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.3038.33
label: nonaccession number
content: 2008.3038
label: catalog number
content: 2008.3038.33
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Set of pins
label: Object Name
content: medallion
label: Object Name
content: medallion, winter olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 cm x 8 cm; 3 15/16 in x 3 1/8 in