Designs for New Olympic Medals Feature Iron from the Eiffel Tower — See Photo!

Paris 2024 Olympics

The2024 Olympicswill allow medalists to take a piece of Paris with them.

“We consulted the archives department with two main ideas in mind: to process this piece of Eiffel Tower in the shape of a hexagon to represent France, and to put it in the center of the medal and in the center of a work of radiating and faceting gold," Chaumet creative director Clémentine Massonnat toldOlympics.com.

View of the new medals.Paris 2024 Olympics

Tony Estanguet presents the new designs.AP Photo/Thibault Camus

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

“As usual, Paris 2024 put the athletes at the center of the project. We wanted two things: to have similar medals for Olympians and Paralympians, and for the medals to include a piece of invaluable iron [from the Eiffel Tower],” five-time gold medal-winning biathlete Martin Fourcade told Olympics.com

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