Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Jesse Owens Olympic Gold medal fetches $1.4 million at auction

Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. PHOTO/File

An Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games has sold for a record US$1.4 million in an online auction.

SCP Auctions said Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner Ron Burkle paid US$1,466,574, the highest price for a piece of Olympic memorabilia. The online auction ended Sunday.

"We just hope that it is purchased by an institution where the public could have access to it, a museum or something like that," Owens'

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