How much 2024 Paris Olympics gold medals are really worth
Winning an Olympic gold medal is the pinnacle for every athlete who gets the privilege of competing at the sporting event - but its numerical worth may shock you.
Held every four years, the two-and-a-half week event pits thousands of athletes against each other in a battle to see who is the best in their respective discipline.
From boxing to javelin and shooting to equestrian, it has something for everyone and very often, you'll end up falling in love with something you've never really given the time of day before.
But for the athletes that win gold, what are they actually getting their hands on? And how much are they worth?
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A gold medal? Kind of but not quite
If the subheading didn't give it away, the gold medals won by athletes aren't actually gold despite the colour they give off.
And for the 2024 Paris Olympics, there will be an extra addition to the standard make up.
An Olympic gold medal is in fact required to be made from at lest 92.5 percent silver. Talk about plot twist.
Every medal only has to have six grams of gold.
In contrast, the silver and bronze medals are both fully solid in their respective metals.
How much are Olympic gold medals worth?
Last time around at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, you were looking at around £540 for a gold medal.
The silvers were worth £297 whereas the bronze were a fiver. No, we're not joking.
Made up of copper and zinc, it's an extremely common metal.
There is some variation, with NBC Sports reporting the golds can go for up to $850 (£655). Ultimately, though, that is based on the metals they are made out of rather than what they represent.
Historic medals have sold for incredible amounts. Back in 2013, one of Jesse Owen's golds from the 1936 Berlin Olympics - that he won in front of Adolf Hitler - sold for a mega $1.46 million (£1.13 million).
2024 Olympic medals
The design for this year's Olympic medals is pretty unique.
Hexagonal in design, they will have an iron sculpture of the Eiffel Tower on top of the medal - weighing an additional 18 grams - to represent the city in which the games are being held.
Joachim Roncin, head of design at the Paris Games organising committee, said: "Having a gold medal is already something incredible. But we wanted to add this French touch and we thought that the Eiffel Tower would be this cherry on top.
"Having a piece of it is a piece of history."
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Tom Earnshaw