Jury members from across the globe put their heads together yesterday to select from a wide field of submitted medal designs for the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) medals.
Aurélie Chaboudez was a gold medalist at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010. The French hurdler travelled to Switzerland to take part in the proceedings, meeting with IOC Olympic Games Executive Director Gilbert Felli and IOC Athlete’s Commission chair and former Olympic gold medalist Claudia Bokel.
Joining them via phone were Chinese Olympic gold medalist Yang Yang, YOG Ambassador Yelena Isinbaeva (who still holds the world record in the pole vault for Russia) and British designer Thomas Heatherwick, the mind behind London’s famous Olympic Cauldron.
The design entries are overwhelming – over 300 entrants from over 50 countries. The panel spent yesterday poring over designs and deliberating over the winner, whose design will adorn all the medals at the second Youth Olympic Games next summer in China.
The winning design will be announced on the YOG site, and you can check out the submissions here.