The IOC explains how the upcycling of the Eiffel Tower is part of its broader sustainability goals for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Organizers of the Ancient Olympics, the precursor of the modern Games, probably weren't as concerned with sustainability as the organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics.At least, if the ancient Greeks were as intent on upcycling as the modern French, we would know how they utilized the discarded wood planks from the Ship of Theseus: by forging Olympic medals.The medals being presented at this year's Olympic Games include a hexagonal piece in the center taken directly from the Eiffel Tower.
'Luckily with an agreement with the Eiffel Tower operation we could get those parts. They were treated as pieces of jewelry.'Jean-François Martins, the President of Société d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel, told the Eiffel Tower's official website that this also gives the medal a historic aspect.Pierre de Coubertin, who formed the IOC at the outset of the first modern Olympics in 1896, was a contemporary of Gustave Eiffel.
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