This Thursday morning, the medals for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games were revealed, with an impressive feature: each of them contains a piece of the Eiffel Tower!
THE Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games are fast approaching! This Thursday, February 8, a main element of these Games was revealed: the visual of the medals what athletes will earn this summer. And they have an exceptional particularity, sincethey contain a piece of the Eiffel Tower ! “Treated like a jewel” over there Chaumet housethis medal includes an original piece of the Iron Lady dating from 1889, set like a precious stone.
Paris 2024 wished “create the best of France” with these medals, as Tony Estanguet indicates, by bringing together the metal of the medals, whether gold, silver or bronze, with the iron one of the Eiffel Tower. Martin Fourcade, who participated in the creation of the medal, explained the decoration of these medals in detail, struck by the Paris Mint. The front is similar for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, with‘or polia reference to the City of Light, which allows light to be returned to make the capital shine.
There we find the piece of the Eiffel Tower cut into hexagon. On the back, the Olympic medals feature references to ancient Greece, with the Parthenon on the left, the goddess Nike, that of victory, in the center, and the Eiffel Tower on the right. For the Paralympic medal, the Iron Lady is still in the spotlight, with a view from below, we find written in braille the words “Paris 2024”.
A medal that is meant to be “timeless“, which brings the ancient Games closer to the modern Games, a century after the last Games in Paris! All that remains for French athletes is to keep these pieces of the Eiffel Tower at home !
Paris 2024 Olympic Games
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2024-02-08 10:55:34
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