Mystery of Olympic cardboard boxes revealed

By Ben Flatman2024-08-05T10:53:00

Source: Paris 2024

At the Paris 2024 Olympics, every medal awarded is accompanied by a narrow cardboard box, but what does it contain?

At the Paris 2024 Olympics, every medal awarded is accompanied by a distinctive long cardboard box, but what does it contain?

Many watching the Paris Olympic coverage may have been intrigued by the sight of a narrow cardboard box being handed out to medal winners.

Medallists seem to have been equally nonplussed, left to awkwardly tuck the boxes under their arms while they pose for photographs.

The Paris Olympics has revealed that the box contains a poster, showing an illustrated architectural representation of the Paris Games.

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