Paris 2024 has revealed the high-concept medals for the upcoming Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (following the already-revealed Paris 2024 torch design by Matthieu Lehanneur). 'It was a bit of a crazy idea,' says Mathieu Prigent, Paris 2024’s special project manager of the medal concept. 'We reflected upon the meaning we wanted to convey. How a classic element can be different, or revolutionary?' The resulting idea was to inject a bit of the Eiffel Tower, the symbol of Paris since its construction in 1889, into every single medal. To do this, the team approached the Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel to obtain the ‘puddle’ iron that was removed from the body of the so-called ‘Iron Lady’ during several major renovations and has been secretly preserved.
