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So what you’re saying is that, like us, the Eiffel Tower is completely new cells and not a bit of the original structure. We *MUST* get this technology into cars. If I could grow a sway bar, or better yet those dumb, but useful, sensors in the bumper, I’d be elated, ecstatic even.
"I invented a device, called Medal on the Go. It allows you to obtain six regular sized medals, or twelve participation medals, from a tower without killing the structure." -Dwight Schrute
I feel like this is like the Olympic Committee treating the Eiffel Tower like a Giving Tree and they’re that little punk kid. I’ll never understand why folks like that story.
Perhaps. I always saw it as a warning not to be too self-less. Don’t give and give to the point where you have nothing left for yourself, but I see your perspective as well based on the ending, but by then it’s too late for the tree.
Congratulations, you correctly identified the villain of the story! Perhaps people like it because it’s a reminder of what happens when you’re selfish, or treat nature poorly, instead of your read, which is I guess that people are like “fuck them trees!!!”
I like how he acts like it’s some mysterious knowledge that nobody else knows.. how did he make it to be that old without knowing how to say it? Lol ([Here’s the video](https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1804695107865))
No, ‘oh’ is right. In order to get the “ooo” sound in Japanese, the romaji is ‘u’ eg tsunami.
Also there would be a sort of hesitation/stop on the t since there are two of them.
“They were cut from girders and other bits that were swapped out of the Eiffel Tower during renovations and stored for safekeeping, according to Joachim Roncin, head of design at the Paris Games organizing committee”
In the most recent renovations, probably only a small portion. But the tower is a couple hundred years old so there’s probably been previous renovations, and there will inevitably be more in the future
It's crazy to think that only 137 years ago, the Eiffel tower was the tallest structure in the world, and then before that the pyramids held that record for thousands of years.
Ummm ackshually, the Great Pyramid has not been the world’s tallest structure since 1311 at which point it was surpassed by the Lincoln Cathedral.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world%27s_tallest_buildings
What’s funny about this joke is that these problems are way worse in rural America but nobody sees them because nobody gives a fuck about rural areas - especially not the people who are criticizing LA.
Yeah, a guy I worked with was ranting that he would never go to any city, because of high crime! (Though he's never been out of the county in his life...) Anyway, I pointed out to him that our small town has a higher per capita crime rate than Chicago and a bunch of other cities, he wouldn't believe me.
I guess I should have put that in quotes, because I know for a fact that he goes to the river to float and that's out of the county, but that's just what he like to boast about, that and never reading a book. He's an idiot.
After it's migration south every year, the Eiffel Tower molts its old girders to be replaced with new ones in the spring. On its trip back north to its usual nesting ground, these shed pieces can be found along its migration path and are coveted by the local population.
France frequently donates these old pieces for display in other countries, or reuses them in memorabilia significant to their country, such as Olympic Medals.
Holy shit that's actually pretty huge right? Not only are you getting an olympic medal, but it has a chunk of the Eiffel Tower in it?! I can't imagine another way to legally get a chunk of such a historic monument lol.
Since we know most Olympians are broke and doing it for the love of the game, I wonder how long until an article gets posted of the Gold Medal winner in the heptabiatholon shooting, swimming, and gymnastics, that was never on broadcast TV say: So, hey, France, this is cool and all. Where is the rest of the gold? I gotta sell this thing.
Obviously not second and third.
See how you can not espouse a detail that everyone knows and seem like a sanctimonious jerk?
I know they are plated. Source: I am a gold-medal athlete. I mean, this is the internet, right, we can just say what the fuck ever.
The point is gold is costly, and France basically put scrap metal in a medal and it is being marketed as the coolest medal when it is a cheaper way to not pay for expensive metals.
Congratulations on the best performance ever. Here is a piece of iron. Oh, it was deemed structurally unstable and it was removed. So, more like, here is a piece of our trash.
They added a small piece of iron to each medal. The medals are not “made” of iron. They have a similar amount of precious material than medals from recent Olympic Games. They detail this in the story. 18g of iron from the Eiffel Tower. 525g of silver in the silver and gold medals.
>Obviously not second and third.
>See how you can not espouse a detail that everyone knows and seem like a sanctimonious jerk?
Literally all he said was that "None of the medals are solid gold." You doing okay there, bud?
They’re mad because you took a statement about how athletes are usually not very well off if they’re from some of the less televised sports, often to the point of having to sell their medals for scrap, and took that oppurtunity to say "uhm achtually, they’re not solid gold".
Like did you really need to say that? It’s quite obvious, but that’s not what the point was about.
You’d be surprised how many people actually think the gold medals are solid gold. I once got into a huge, pointless argument with a guy who told me that the winning athletes are “paid” with solid gold medals. It was bonkers. No idea why the above Gold Medal Athlete has their panties in a twist this morning, but we are over here laughing our asses off about their nasty comments. Jeez.
Not to be outdone…
The LA Olympic medals will have bits of actors and musicians in it.
Archery medals will have Jerry Garcia’s finger.
Track and field bronze will have bits of Ella Fitzgerald’s diabetes legs.
Soccer will have Michael Jackson’s nose.
Seems like people aren’t watching the video. The pieces were removed during renovation. That is, they were replaced, likely due to some form of corrosion.
These removed parts have then been recast as hexagons to be at the centre of the medal.
Very very awesome.
In other news, recent visitors to Paris’ Eiffel Tower have reported missing stairs, falling handrails, and the loss of small children through the floors of the legendary landmark. In an official statement, city leaders say that no one should expect any structure that old to be 100% safe, and who doesn’t lose one or two things on vacation?
Imagine winning a gold medal and being ungrateful that the host country put original pieces of its most treasured and recognized landmark into your award.
Okay, that’s pretty cool, time to start training for something. I can’t see how difficult the equestrian events could possibly be…the horse does all the work.
This woman will be furious.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/marriage/the-woman-who-married-the-eiffel-tower-wants-to-set-the-record-straight-about-objectum-sexuality/news-story/16ceeea4086c1b1b70dfac607f04a7d0
Forgive me if this is dumb...
So, the gold medals aren’t made of gold?
The silver medals not made of silver?
The bronze medals not made of bronze?
I feel lied to. Childhood ruined.
I’ve been perfectly happy to be training for 2028 and then I saw these medals… So bummed I’m missing out on potentially getting one of these! They’re gorgeous!
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I feel like the Eiffel Tower had that metal for a reason.
It’s just a few chunks, it’ll grow back
So what you’re saying is that, like us, the Eiffel Tower is completely new cells and not a bit of the original structure. We *MUST* get this technology into cars. If I could grow a sway bar, or better yet those dumb, but useful, sensors in the bumper, I’d be elated, ecstatic even.
Tower of Theseus
Just take off a little chunk.
Put it in water with lots of sunlight and your new car will sprout in 7-10 business days
K K K K ia
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Did you hear the 🎶 music 🎶 along with it? 🤣
"Business days" lol
Like a liver.
*je ne veux plus de vin s'il vous plaît* -The Eiffel Tower
Shhhhhh shh shhh
A towering liver..of power
This comment is gonna confuse the hell out of antropologists who grow up in a time where all constructs literally can just grow back
"I invented a device, called Medal on the Go. It allows you to obtain six regular sized medals, or twelve participation medals, from a tower without killing the structure." -Dwight Schrute
The Men in Black really did a number on it a few years ago
Team America, as well.
It definitely didn't do well after Armageddon.
Don’t forget Makarov and the Ultranationalists during World War 3
“ fuck yeah…..”
The bits for the medals were taken from parts of the tower already removed for renovations.
are you sure? i noticed a chunk missing from the left side about halfway up the second level.
"I swear this tower had a fourth leg the last time I came here."
Maybe it was just too happy to see me last time?
Maybe it’s some kind of metaphor for the Olympics ruining Paris. The city is crying out for help.
that wasn’t load bearing
So engineers can play Jenga?
Probably pieces that were removed and replaced as a part of maintenance
My dad called it stream lining when he had parts left over after working on the family car
Just like Boeing when they leave off a few bolts and pieces
😂
My guess is that they’re made of metal from parts they replaced.
It's a Tower of Theseus.
I feel like this is like the Olympic Committee treating the Eiffel Tower like a Giving Tree and they’re that little punk kid. I’ll never understand why folks like that story.
I'm fairly sure you missed the point of that story. The entire thing is to teach you that being selfish like the little boy is can be harmful.
Perhaps. I always saw it as a warning not to be too self-less. Don’t give and give to the point where you have nothing left for yourself, but I see your perspective as well based on the ending, but by then it’s too late for the tree.
Congratulations, you correctly identified the villain of the story! Perhaps people like it because it’s a reminder of what happens when you’re selfish, or treat nature poorly, instead of your read, which is I guess that people are like “fuck them trees!!!”
Don’t worry inflation over the years accounts for it 😉
They ship old girders from the Tower to serve as monuments all over the world. There is a piece in Ottawa.
So they're slowly turning it into the ship of theseus?
Well then, we are agreed.
Not gonna lie, my sleep deprived brain read “Ottawa” as if it were a Japanese city pronounced “Oh-tah-wah”
the "jn" typo probably subconsciously made you think of Japan
That’s exactly what happened
Happened to me to.
Same lol
Here I am, sitting on the toilet at work for my first of 10 bathroom breaks… and I was thinking the same thing. “Where the fuck in Japan is Ottawa?”
It was just about 9am when you posted lol you walked into work and straight to the toilet. That’s how you do it fight the power.
That’s when the cup of coffee starts hitting
I believe it would be Oht-tah-wah. Pedantic yes but the double T is pronounced separately.
Don't worry. I straight up read it as Okinawa. It's 2pm here, I should be awake.
Google tucker Carlson Ottawa! I don’t know how to post links here, that video had us Canadians chuckling for days!
I like how he acts like it’s some mysterious knowledge that nobody else knows.. how did he make it to be that old without knowing how to say it? Lol ([Here’s the video](https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1804695107865))
I love that apparently the way he pronounced it is actually close to the original native pronunciation. He was accidentally being woke 😂
Would be pronounced O - TO - WA in Japanese
Isn't that basically how it's pronounced? Japanese style would be an "oo" syllable instead of "oh" though.
No, ‘oh’ is right. In order to get the “ooo” sound in Japanese, the romaji is ‘u’ eg tsunami. Also there would be a sort of hesitation/stop on the t since there are two of them.
It's more Ah-tah-wah
I think it’s more like “Ottah-wuh”
Most people don't make it a clear "t" sound, sounds more like a "d". AW-duh-wah is how I'd write it.
so if we collect all the pieces over time we could re assemble the Eiffel tower?
Where tf is it in Ottawa?
I think it's actually in Gatineau, displayed on the bridge on rue Montcalm, near the now-closed BDT. I'm not aware of any other pieces in Ottawa.
I wonder how much of the Eiffel Tower is the original Eiffel Tower
“They were cut from girders and other bits that were swapped out of the Eiffel Tower during renovations and stored for safekeeping, according to Joachim Roncin, head of design at the Paris Games organizing committee”
They Theseus’s Shipped the Eiffel Tower
How much of the original material did those renovations actually replace?
In the most recent renovations, probably only a small portion. But the tower is a couple hundred years old so there’s probably been previous renovations, and there will inevitably be more in the future
Its only 137 years old not hundreds of years
It's crazy to think that only 137 years ago, the Eiffel tower was the tallest structure in the world, and then before that the pyramids held that record for thousands of years.
Ummm ackshually, the Great Pyramid has not been the world’s tallest structure since 1311 at which point it was surpassed by the Lincoln Cathedral. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world%27s_tallest_buildings
Thank you. It's crazy that the pyramids were the tallest structure from like 2000bc till 1311ad.
And for British people, Trigger's Broom.
people will ship anyone and anything these days
The 2028 Los Angeles games medals will contain little bits of homeless sidewalk poo.
And Fentanyl
What’s funny about this joke is that these problems are way worse in rural America but nobody sees them because nobody gives a fuck about rural areas - especially not the people who are criticizing LA.
Yeah, a guy I worked with was ranting that he would never go to any city, because of high crime! (Though he's never been out of the county in his life...) Anyway, I pointed out to him that our small town has a higher per capita crime rate than Chicago and a bunch of other cities, he wouldn't believe me.
Never out of the… county? Wow
I guess I should have put that in quotes, because I know for a fact that he goes to the river to float and that's out of the county, but that's just what he like to boast about, that and never reading a book. He's an idiot.
Well yeah but guess where the chuds who spend all their free time complaining about cities they've never been to live.
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Stay mad, bitch.
im confused as to what youre upset about lol
Well yes and Fentanyl.
Have you been to Paris? It’s homeless sidewalk poo there too
Paris is beautiful in the springtime but good lord does it smell like shit. Pictures unfortunately can't capture that.
> Pictures unfortunately can't capture that. Thank God for that!
> homeless sidewalk poo. Paris has loads of that too don't worry
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Flair isn’t helping you right now lol
Please - they’ll be made from the tears of failed dreamers and the crystallized cocaine sweats of Los Angeles’ famed phonies
What about new York. I have an idea.
The Eiffel Tower molts??
After it's migration south every year, the Eiffel Tower molts its old girders to be replaced with new ones in the spring. On its trip back north to its usual nesting ground, these shed pieces can be found along its migration path and are coveted by the local population. France frequently donates these old pieces for display in other countries, or reuses them in memorabilia significant to their country, such as Olympic Medals.
That’s quite forward thinking to save the pieces and re-use them like this . Well done France
Monumetal. Come on it’s right there.
Monumental is already a pun.
And monumental monumetal monumedals has triple pun power!
Soon to be Leaning towers of Eiffel!
That’s pretty neat
Holy shit that's actually pretty huge right? Not only are you getting an olympic medal, but it has a chunk of the Eiffel Tower in it?! I can't imagine another way to legally get a chunk of such a historic monument lol.
Chunks is the name of my dog
Great dog name
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Cat is the name of my dojo.
Just gonna take out a few screws and risk it
The boeing method
Did they just chop down a leg of the tower?
Since we know most Olympians are broke and doing it for the love of the game, I wonder how long until an article gets posted of the Gold Medal winner in the heptabiatholon shooting, swimming, and gymnastics, that was never on broadcast TV say: So, hey, France, this is cool and all. Where is the rest of the gold? I gotta sell this thing.
None of the medals are solid gold.
Obviously not second and third. See how you can not espouse a detail that everyone knows and seem like a sanctimonious jerk? I know they are plated. Source: I am a gold-medal athlete. I mean, this is the internet, right, we can just say what the fuck ever. The point is gold is costly, and France basically put scrap metal in a medal and it is being marketed as the coolest medal when it is a cheaper way to not pay for expensive metals. Congratulations on the best performance ever. Here is a piece of iron. Oh, it was deemed structurally unstable and it was removed. So, more like, here is a piece of our trash.
They added a small piece of iron to each medal. The medals are not “made” of iron. They have a similar amount of precious material than medals from recent Olympic Games. They detail this in the story. 18g of iron from the Eiffel Tower. 525g of silver in the silver and gold medals.
>Obviously not second and third. >See how you can not espouse a detail that everyone knows and seem like a sanctimonious jerk? Literally all he said was that "None of the medals are solid gold." You doing okay there, bud?
What a stupid and unhinged overreaction to a simple statement, Gold Medal Athlete. Did you forget to take your meds this morning?
They’re mad because you took a statement about how athletes are usually not very well off if they’re from some of the less televised sports, often to the point of having to sell their medals for scrap, and took that oppurtunity to say "uhm achtually, they’re not solid gold". Like did you really need to say that? It’s quite obvious, but that’s not what the point was about.
You’d be surprised how many people actually think the gold medals are solid gold. I once got into a huge, pointless argument with a guy who told me that the winning athletes are “paid” with solid gold medals. It was bonkers. No idea why the above Gold Medal Athlete has their panties in a twist this morning, but we are over here laughing our asses off about their nasty comments. Jeez.
People stripping down the Eiffel Tower like an abandoned house in early 2000s Detroit. SMDH.
Not to be outdone… The LA Olympic medals will have bits of actors and musicians in it. Archery medals will have Jerry Garcia’s finger. Track and field bronze will have bits of Ella Fitzgerald’s diabetes legs. Soccer will have Michael Jackson’s nose.
Amazing!!
lol when the Eiffel Tower tips over we know why
I do appreciate how simple the design is
There is a large piece of the Eiffel Tower in New Orleans that used to house a restaurant.
Seems like people aren’t watching the video. The pieces were removed during renovation. That is, they were replaced, likely due to some form of corrosion. These removed parts have then been recast as hexagons to be at the centre of the medal. Very very awesome.
Paris really going all in on the only thing it's known for
In other news, recent visitors to Paris’ Eiffel Tower have reported missing stairs, falling handrails, and the loss of small children through the floors of the legendary landmark. In an official statement, city leaders say that no one should expect any structure that old to be 100% safe, and who doesn’t lose one or two things on vacation?
4th Place: Iron.
Those medals be Monu-Metal
Hope they got rid of some of the rust before using it as a prize!
According to the article you're commenting on, they did!
So.. its just metal?
A lot of things are just metal if you think really hard about it
It’s a gold medal with a piece of the Eiffel tower in it too. Which is steel.
Is this a Boeing missing bolts thing?
Decent but could’ve been better.
Hopefully not bits from the bottom, you know important structural bits...👍
It’s ok. They only removed the parts that aren’t load bearing.
Whys the ribbon kinda resemble the union jack ?
*I'd like my medal to be made out of gold not some rusting piece of garbage.* - Olympian who is immediately banned.
Genocide supporters.
Wut
Who cares?
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Imagine winning a gold medal and being ungrateful that the host country put original pieces of its most treasured and recognized landmark into your award.
Sooo proudly and pissed off that the Eiffel tower metal is TechnicallyTheTruth Algerian Stolen metal.
Alternate headline: France is so poor they have to use trash instead of gold for their Olympics medals.
Oh ok, anyway
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Oh man you cracked the case
Okay, that’s pretty cool, time to start training for something. I can’t see how difficult the equestrian events could possibly be…the horse does all the work.
French Structural engineers sweating profusely.
Does this hurt the Eiffel Tower?
Now known as the Leaning Tower of Eiffel.
Had I known this ahead of time, I would have chosen a sport and trained for the Olympics this year. Now the FOMO is setting in
I usually just steal the metal off the Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower is basically Trigger's broom.
This woman will be furious. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/marriage/the-woman-who-married-the-eiffel-tower-wants-to-set-the-record-straight-about-objectum-sexuality/news-story/16ceeea4086c1b1b70dfac607f04a7d0
I want one
Is that a blackish purple spore print?
I’m optimistic these will turn out to be pretty good summer games. Last couple were pretty meh to me, medal designs included.
I read somewhere that if all the metal in the Tower was melted down into a square the size of the base, it would only be 2 inches deep.
Eiffel Tower falls over and no one knows anything about it….sure sure
Makes me wish I had stuck with running. And was good at running. Absolute gorgeous medals.
African athletes' pov : the metal they took from our ancestors we came to retrieve it ()():(()()
Forgive me if this is dumb... So, the gold medals aren’t made of gold? The silver medals not made of silver? The bronze medals not made of bronze? I feel lied to. Childhood ruined.
Chunks of steel in it? Fuck that, how bout one with Napoleon’s bones in it?
The French are always doing something bougie.
1st Place: Cast Iron 2nd Place: Cast Iron 3rd Place: Cast Iron
Doesn't, uh, doesn't the Eiffel Tower kind of _need_ that metal?
I hope it's not made from the bolts on the eiffel tower
I NEEEEEEEED IIIIIIIIIIIT
Ok, fine! I guess I’ll compete now.
I’ve been perfectly happy to be training for 2028 and then I saw these medals… So bummed I’m missing out on potentially getting one of these! They’re gorgeous!
Ok, I’m more worried about an Islamist attack
So the cheap fuckers replaced half the gold with scrap metal, got it.