The organizing committee of the event revealed the details on its official social profile
Summary
The Paris-2024 Organizing Committee has revealed the 5,084 gold, silver and bronze medals designed by French luxury jewelery company Chaumet which will feature an iron piece of the Eiffe Tower, as well as images of references to France and at the Olympics.
The organizers of the event revealed on Thursday the 8th the medals that will be awarded to athletes in both the category Olympic Games as much as us The Paralympians will have it inserting pieces of Eiffel Tower. In total they will be 5,084 medals distributed in the two sporting competitions. The pieces were designed by French luxury jewelry house Chaumet.
The Paris-2024 Organizing Committee’s goal is to connect the Games to the French capital’s biggest symbol and tourist attraction. The event will begin in five months.
“The absolute symbol of Paris and France is the Eiffel Tower. We created the opportunity for athletes to take a piece of Paris with them,” said Thierry Reboul, the organization’s creative director.
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The gold, silver and bronze medals will have a hexagonal piece of iron, taken from the renovation work carried out in recent decades on the Eiffe Tower, weighing 18 grams. It has not been revealed how the material was preserved during this period.
The hexagonal shape of the iron pieces is a reference to the shape of France. On the back of each garment are depicted the image of the goddess Nike, which symbolizes victory, the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, where the modern Olympics resumed in 1896, the Acropolis and the Eiffel Tower itself.
The Paralympic medals have a bottom view of the Eiffel Tower on the back. The item will also have a message in Braille referring to the French Louis Braille.
Source: Terra
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