"We wanted these medals to be truly unique, to bear the Paris 2024 signature," said Paris 2024 Olympics president Tony Estanguet Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from ...

Paris — There's another metal on offer for winners at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. In addition to the customary gold, silver and bronze, each winner's medal will feature a small piece of iron ...

The Eiffel Tower was a completely novel design at the time it was built. At the time of its construction, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure ever built. That meant that the engineers had a key ...

Two of his senior engineers, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, drafted the first version in 1884. At first, Eiffel wasn’t impressed by their sketches—he thought they looked too plain. But once ...

The Eiffel Tower, one of the most visited landmarks in the world today, was once the tallest structure ever built too. At the time of its completion in 1889, its 984 feet (or 300 meters) far surpassed ...

An Olympic medal inlaid with a piece of the Eiffel Tower. How’s that for a monumental prize? A hexagonal, polished chunk of iron taken from the iconic landmark is being embedded in each gold, silver ...

As the world eagerly anticipates the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which will take place from July 26 to August 11, the medals to be awarded to victorious athletes have garnered attention for their unique ...

Gold, silver and bronze medals for the upcoming games will include iron from the Eiffel Tower. Paris 2024/Cyril Masson Winners of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games won’t just make history—they’ll ...

Medalists at this year’s Paris Olympics and Paralympics will also take home a piece of the French capital’s iconic landmark. By Aurelien Breeden Reporting from Paris Athletes who win medals at the ...

The designs for the competing tower projects represented to different visions for the future: On one side, tradition, as embodied by Jules Bourdais’s stone tower in the academic style as taught at the ...