As unique as the world's top athletes and their awe-inspiring performances, every medal won at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
will be a one-of-a-kind work of art. The medals, revealed on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at the Olympic and Paralympic Village Vancouver, each feature a different crop of larger contemporary Aboriginal artworks and
are undulating rather than flat - both firsts in Games history. The Olympic medals are circular in shape, while the Paralympic medals are a superellipse, or squared circle.
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Paralympic
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The dramatic form of the Vancouver 2010 medals is inspired by the ocean waves, drifting snow and mountainous landscape found in the Games region and throughout Canada. The Olympic medals are circular in shape, while the Paralympic medals are a superellipse, or squared circle. Both are equal in size. Their significant weight - between 500 grams to 576 g depending on the medal - represents the magnitude of the athlete's accomplishment. The Olympic medals are 100 millimetres in diameter and about six mm thick, while the Paralympic medals are 95 mm wide and about six mm thick. They are among the heaviest medals in Olympic and Paralympic history.
full press release with lots of other info;
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2009/15/c6940.html
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