As the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris conclude, athletes from across the world are celebrating their achievements over the Games at the Closing Ceremony.
Athletes who came away with a medal over the course of the Olympics were also handed a gold box in addition to their medals, leading many to wonder, what’s in the box they’re given?
Jessica Fox, who competed in Canoe Slalom for Australia, recently took to her social media accounts to reveal what’s inside the mysterious, rectangular box given to 2024 Olympics athletes who medal.
In her video, Fox unboxes an “athlete edition” of the official 2024 Olympics poster.
“Usually, we get the mascot or flowers,” Fox said in the video. “This time, it’s a little bit more unique, and I think it’s a really cool concept.”
The poster is the official poster for the 2024 Paris Olympics and it’s designed by French artist Ugo Gattoni, according the Olympics.com.
“The entirety of the posters were produced manually, without any AI assistance,” Olympics officials said. “From the first pencil stroke to the last splash of colour, everything was done by hand. This is why each character in the crowd is unique.”
According to officials, Gattoni had total creative freedom over the poster, which took four months and 2,000 hours to complete.
Once the initial sketches were approved, Gattoni said he “went into detail.”
“I added buildings, changed the background, put in the shadow,” Gattoni said. “I added the Tahiti wave and included Marseille,” he recalled, pointing to each element with precision.”
The poster also contains eight hidden mascots, officials said — an item medal-winning athletes also receive after reaching the podium.
After the ceremony, according to Olympics.com, medal winners also receive aa stuffed Olympic Phryge — the official mascot of the 2024 Olympics.. On the belly, a medal emblem is sewn on.