What are Pan Am Games?

The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) constitute a major event in the Americas featuring summer and formerly winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. It is held at a gap of every four years in the year before the summer Olympic Games. There has so far been only one edition of the Winter Pan American Games in 1990. The first Pan American Games were held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 25 February 1951.

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How pure are Olympic gold medals?

The Olympic gold medals are mostly made of silver, not gold. Only six grams, or 0.19 ounce, of gold is required to coat the medal. The medal itself is made of 92.5 per cent or 550 grams of pure silver. The medals are usually circular with a diameter of a minimum of 60 mm and a thickness of a minimum of 3 mm. These speciļ¬cations are as per the Olympic Charter. The last time a pure gold medal was awarded in the 1912 Olympics in Sweden.

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