Cuban Olympic gold medals up for auction

A pair of Olympic gold medals won by Cuban athletes are up for auction with the price expected to soar in the closing days.
A pair of Olympic gold medals won by Cuban athletes are up for auction with the price expected to soar in the closing days.
The Versace fashion house and designer Stella McCartney have led tributes to model Stella Tennant, who has died suddenly five days after her 50th birthday.
It was something of a shock when it dawned on me that I should now be "celebrating" - if that is a word we are allowed to use in these dark days by our ramshackle leaders - my 65th year in journalism.
The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which served as the main venue hub when London hosted the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has been named on a list of the country's 10 favourite parks.
A memorial garden is set to be created at London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as a tribute to key workers and those that lost their lives to coronavirus.
Iran's Navab Nasirshelal has officially been confirmed as the men's under-105 kilograms weightlifting champion from London 2012 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
A former Treasury official in the United Kingdom who was responsible for setting the budget for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been appointed as the new chief of staff of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Roxana Cocos and Răzvan Martin are set to be stripped of their London 2012 Olympic medals after three Romanian weightlifters were disqualified following positive retests from the Games.
Uzbekistan's Davit Modzmanashvili has been banned for eight years after he was stripped of his Olympic wrestling silver medal for doping following the re-analysis of his sample from London 2012.
Australian swimmers James Magnussen and Christian Sprenger have claimed it would be unfair if they were to lose their Olympic relay bronze medals after London 2012 team mate Brenton Rickard revealed a sample he provided at the Games had tested positive for a banned substance.
Australia is at risk of being stripped of an Olympic bronze medal in the 4x100 metres medley after Brenton Rickard revealed a re-tested sample from London 2012 was found to contain masking agent furosemide.
A bronze statue of triple Olympic gold medal-winning horse Valegro has been unveiled in Newent, the small market town in Gloucestershire in England where the gelding is based with his rider Charlotte Dujardin.
Dave Toole, a dancer who performed in the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, has died at the age of 56.
A bronze statue of triple Olympic gold medal-winning horse Valegro is to be erected in the small market town in Gloucestershire in England where the gelding is based with his rider Charlotte Dujardin.
The British company which made the Olympic Torch for London 2012 has gone into liquidation, claiming that the coronavirus was the final straw.