Medals will be made from metals of recycled electronics that have been collected all over Japan since April 2017.
More than 400 entries were submitted for the design.As we hit exactly one year mark until the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the countdown has begunand with that, the unveiling of the medals that the best athletes in the world will take home next summer.
For starters, the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games began the medal-making process with a design competition. More than 400 entries were submitted, but only onewas chosen for the design of the roughly 5,000 medals for the Games. Two years later, the public answered the call, as 78,985 tons of small electronic devices were collected from municipal authorities and around 6.21 million used mobile phones from shops across the country.
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