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(From L to R) Olympics French sportsmen Arnaud Assoumani, Marie Patouillet, Sara Balzer and French President of the Paris Organising Committee of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Tony Estanguet pose with olympics 2024 medals on February 01, 2024 at the Eiffel tower in Paris. On the medals' head side, the engraved figures of the goddess of victory Athena, Nike, the Panathenaic stadium and the Acropolis are imposed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) but Paris 2024 has obtained exceptional authorization to add the design of the Eiffel Tower, and use 18 grams of Eiffel Tower metal on each medal, extracted from pieces of the tower. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP) (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)