Sentence examples for medals only from inspiring English sources

"But for a place that likes gold medals only, that doesn't satisfy," MacCurdy said.

Bennett now has three career gold medals, only one shy of Evans's total.

Among the women who won 100-meter Olympic gold medals, only Fanny Blankers-Koen at the London Games in 1948 won one after turning 30.

At the last Winter Olympics, in Vancouver two years ago, Russia flopped historically, bringing its worst ever result with just 15 medals (only three of them gold), putting it sixth in the medals count.

Now, however, the emphasis is emphatically on winning medals: only those considered good enough to be on the podium at Rio 2016 will receive such funding from UK Sport.

Amelia Hodsdon, who edits the Guardian's style guide with David Marsh, said: "In print, headlines often work only in conjunction with an image – 'Phew!', the day after Team GB won its first gold medals, only made sense with the picture of a triumphant, relieved Bradley Wiggins.

(Last night they had 25 medals, but only four gold).

To win 20 medals but only a bronze or silver in hockey would be "dreadful," one columnist opined.

Since 2003, Cseh has won nine individual world championship medals but only one gold, as Phelps and, more recently, Ryan Lochte have foiled his goal of world domination.

The team won 10 medals but only one gold in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay.

Buffon won the World Cup in 2006 and has six Serie A winners' medals, but only reached the Champions League final once - losing to AC Milan in 2003.