In addition to medals, Russian Olympic medalists received mysterious boxes. What’s in them?
Yulia Sidorova August 4, 2024, 21:45 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
The organizers give out unique posters to all winners.
At the awards ceremony, Russian tennis players Mirra Andreeva and Diana Schneider received not only silver awards, but also mysterious elongated boxes. These are awarded to all Olympic medalists.
The contents of the boxes interested many viewers. So what’s inside?
The answer is simple: there is a unique Olympic poster.
“These are stories within a story”
The official competition poster was prepared specifically for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. The idea of creating such a gift came from Olympic design director Joachim Ronsin.
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“I wanted to tell the story of Paris 2024 to take sport beyond the stadiums. I wanted the poster to speak of countless things, to be full of symbols. There are many small details, they are stories within a story,” Ronsin explained the idea.
French artist Ugo Gattoni was tasked with bringing the idea to life. He spent 2,000 hours working on every detail of the painting. It is claimed that all the signs were hand-made and no artificial intelligence was used in their creation.
“From the first stroke of the pencil to the last touch of colour, everything was done by hand. That is why every character in the audience is unique,” the organisers of the Games emphasise.
You can look at the poster for hours.
The poster created by Gattoni is a concentration of all the symbols, cultural and sporting objects of the 2024 Games. Where else can you see how Paris merged with the shores of Tahiti and the port of Marseille and how the Eiffel Tower became the centre of a huge stadium? Here you will find the Grand Palais, the majestic Pont Alexandre III and the Seine, where delegations of athletes sailed during the opening ceremony.
You can study the poster for hours and find a new and unique detail every time. For example, eight Olympic mascots are hidden inside it, all sports are represented and attention is paid to each individual character, whether it is a fan with a flag or an athlete on the track.
By the way, in addition to the medal and the poster, after the award ceremony the athletes are given the mascot of the Games – the plush Frige. And, by the way, it is not easy. Each one has a gold, silver or bronze medal sewn on it, according to which one the athlete won, and the inscription “Bravo” is embroidered on the back.
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