A aspect of the Paris 2024 Olympic gold medal, that includes an Eiffel Tower at proper, is offered Monday, Feb. 5, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photograph/John Leicester)
The Olympic medals on the Paris 2024 Video games will embrace items of the Eiffel Tower.
The historic contact was introduced by organizers on Thursday. And the Eiffel Tower items should not tiny or hidden — they type the centerpieces of the medals.
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Celle de #Paris2024 est française, rayonnante et distinctive avec un fragment de fer d’origine de la tour Eiffel de 1889 !@Olympics @jeuxolympiques pic.twitter.com/prp23OXWUa— Paris 2024 (@Paris2024) February 8, 2024
As a result of the Eiffel Tower has been refurbished and restored a number of occasions through the years, authentic iron items of the construction have been eliminated and saved by the Eiffel Tower Working Co. Paris 2024 organizers stored that in thoughts when designing the medals.
“The idea got here after a number of discussions. We realized that there’s one image identified the world over, which is the Eiffel Tower,” head designer Joachim Roncin stated. “We stated to ourselves, ‘Hey, what if we approached the Eiffel Tower Working Co. to see if it’s attainable to get a little bit of the Eiffel Tower to combine into the medal?’”
![PARIS, FRANCE - FEBRUARY 08: Koumba Larroque attends the unveiling of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Medals At Paris 2024 Headquarters on February 08, 2024 in Paris, France. Paris will host the Summer Olympics from July 26 till August 11, 2024. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.nydailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1994965822.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
The result’s a hexagonal centerpiece on the entrance of the medals. The unique Eiffel Tower iron items, every weighing about 18 grams, have been polished to take away their “Eiffel Tower brown” paint and set within the medal with six small clasps.
Disks of gold, silver and bronze encompass the central Eiffel Tower hexagon. The reverse aspect reveals Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. All Olympic medals have displayed Nike on one aspect since 1928. This yr’s medals additionally depict the Parthenon and the Eiffel Tower on the again.
![PARIS, FRANCE - FEBRUARY 08: Paralympic medals are displayed during the unveiling of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Medals At Paris 2024 Headquarters on February 08, 2024 in Paris, France. Paris will host the Summer Olympics from July 26 till August 11, 2024. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.nydailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1994926903.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
“Having a gold medal is already one thing unbelievable. However we wished so as to add this French contact, and we thought that the Eiffel Tower could be this cherry on the highest,” Roncin stated. “Having a chunk of it’s a piece of historical past.”
All medals for the 2024 Paralympics, which comply with about two weeks after the Olympics conclude, may even have a chunk of the Eiffel Tower in them.
The reverse aspect of the Paralympic medals reveals the Eiffel Tower as if somebody was trying up on the construction from beneath. Moreover, the phrases “Paris 2024” are written in Braille, which was invented by Frenchman Louis Braille.
![The Paris 2024 Paralympic bronze medal is presented to the press, in Paris, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. A hexagonal, polished piece of iron taken from the Eiffel Tower is being embedded in each gold, silver and bronze medal that will be hung around athletes' necks at the July 26-Aug. 11 Paris Games and Paralympics that follow. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)](https://i0.wp.com/www.nydailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AP24038499009528.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&ssl=1)
The Paris Olympics will start July 26 and finish Aug. 11. The Paralympics will start Aug. 28 and finish Sept. 8.
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