Paris Olympic committee to hand special Eiffel Tower material inlaid medals to athletes
Paris Olympic committee to hand special Eiffel Tower material inlaid medals to athletes
With less than six months to go before the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics, the designs for the medals were unveiled on Thursday (Feb 8). The 2024 Paris Olympic medals will be inlaid from the material of the Eiffel Tower, according to the design unveiled by the organising committee.
Special Eiffel Tower inlaid medals
On Thursday, the Paris Olympic committee, currently under pressure for several controversial reasons revealed the design which consists of iron pieces embedded in the center of the medals each weighing 18 grams. The iron pieces were cut from girders and other bits that were swapped out of the Eiffel Tower during renovations and stored for safekeeping, according to Joachim Roncin, head of design at the Paris Games organizing committee.
“The concept came after a few discussions. We realized that there’s one symbol known across the world, which is the Eiffel Tower,” Roncin said.
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“We said to ourselves, ‘Hey, what if we approached the Eiffel Tower Operating Co. to see if it’s possible to get a bit of the Eiffel Tower to integrate into the medal?’", he added.
The company agreed, and “the dream became reality,” he said. “It’s really a bit of metal from the Eiffel Tower.”
This will be the third time Paris will host the Olympics having previously done so in 1900 and 1924. However, neither in those nor in any other Olympics has there been a more unique design of medals that will be handed to the athletes.
Interestingly, alongside the Olympics, the Paralympics medal will also consist of Eiffel Tower iron material which again makes the occasion special.
The Paris Olympics will kickstart on 26 July 2024 and will be concluded on August 11 where more than 10000 athletes are expected to participate from around the world.
