Organisers present "patchwork quilt" design of medals for 2014 Games

Описание: (30 May 2013)
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1. Presentation of medals for 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, zoom in as Russian Olympic champion Svetlana Zhurova lifts out gold medal to show to media
2. Media at event
3. Various of Zhurova showing Olympic gold medal to media
4. Wide of Dmitry Chernyshenko, President of Sochi 2014 Olympic Organising Committee, and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak on stage
5. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Dmitry Chernyshenko, President of Sochi 2014 Olympic Organising Committee:
"(The aim was) to make a unique and memorable medal that would reflect the eternal values that are represented by traditional motifs relating to different regions of Russia, and at the same time to create somthing that would be suitably innovative and correspond with the zeitgeist and correspond to Russia's aspiration to hold the most innovative games in Sochi."
6. Various of gold, silver and bronze Olympic medals in a display case
7. Wide of man walking onto stage with box of Paralympic Games medals
8. Mid of cameras filming
9. Various of Russian Paralympic champion Fyodor Trikolich presenting Paralympic gold medal to media
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jean-Claude Killy, Chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission for Sochi 2014:
"Those medals are absolutely magnificent, in my opinion. And they are very representative of what Russia is today, which is very big country with a great variety of culture, colours, pattern of quilt. It is magnificent."
11. Various of Olympic medals in display case
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jean-Claude Killy, Chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission for Sochi 2014:
(answering question whether construction will be finished in time for the games)
"We have no doubts about it whatsoever. What we know is that there is still a lot of work to do, but obviously Sochi 2014 has eight months to do it. Construction, most of them, are almost completed, as you know. And so, we know there is a lot of things to do, but it's going to be done, and the Games are going to be magnificent."
13. Mid of photographers taking pictures of medals
14. Various of Olympic gold medal being presented
STORYLINE:
The medals that are to be awarded to athletes at the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic games were presented to the media on Thursday in Saint Petersburg.
The medals for the 2014 Winter games feature a "patchwork quilt" design representing the different regions of Russia.
Organisers produced a record 1,300 medals for the Olympics and Paralympics, which will be held in the Black Sea resort next February and March.
The medals depict the sun's rays reflecting through a prism of mountains and beaches.
The design was approved on Thursday by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) executive board.
Jean-Claude Killy, the chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission for Sochi 2014, described the medals as "magnificent".
Killy acknowledged there was still much to be done to prepare for the Games but he was certain that the sites would be ready in time.
The medals are 0.4 inches (one centimetre) thick and 4 inches (10 centimetres) in diameter.
The Olympic gold medals weigh 16 ounces (0.45 kilograms).

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