Paris Olympics medals contain Eiffel Tower pieces

Paris Olympics medals will feature pieces of the Eiffel Tower embedded in each gold, silver and bronze prize.

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 and bronze medal that will be hung around athletes’ necks at the July 26-Aug. 11 Paris Games and Paralympics that follow.

Games organizers revealed their revolutionary design on Thursday.Simone Biles has seven medals from her two previous Olympics and LeBron James has two golds and one bronze from London, Beijing and Athens.

But neither of those athletes who are targeting the Paris Games nor any of the roughly 36,600 other medalists at 29 previous Summer Olympics stretching back to 1896 ever owned one quite like these.

New Olympic medals during an unveiling in Paris on Thursday.Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty ImagesFrench athletes pose with new Olympic medals at the Eiffel Tower on Feb. 1.Stephane De Sakutin / AFP - Getty ImagesBy making history at the Games, Paris medalists will take a bit of France and its history home, too.

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