2024-02-29 03:28:49
The remains were extracted during the tower’s modernization works.
The organization of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games presented the design of the medals that will be awarded during the sporting event that will take place this year. The particularity is that they will be decorated with a particular material: remains of the Eiffel Tower.
In this way, the joyero francés Chaumetin charge of medal design He explained that apart from the gold, silver and bronze that characterize them, all of them will have this detail.
In the middle of one of them, there will be an iron hexagon made with fragments of the Eiffel Toweridentifying them as an unavoidable symbol of France.
“18 grams of material from the Iron Ladyand are kept secretly in hangars on the outskirts of the City of Light, will make up each piece, making them unique“They explain in a note detailing the process.
The president of the Organizing Committee of the event, Tony Estanguetsaid that “they have been made great efforts for try to combine these precious metals, with the most precious metal in the Eiffel Tower, the jewel of the French crown.”
Also, he added that will be characteristic of the Paris 2024 medals, how they intertwinethat fusion, that alloy.”
How did they obtain the remains that will be used in Paris 2024?
During the 20th century, modernization works of the Eiffel Tower elevators and that’s when They moved definitely some sections from the Iron Lady’s tower and were carefully preserved.
For the Olympic Games, the Eiffel Tower Operating Company allowed its use in the Paris 2024 medalsexplaining that it was time for them to “find a second home.”