Paris Mint – 2024 Olympics Mascot Handball Colored Commemorative Coin

The Paris 2024 Mascot plays handball, looking determinedly at the opposing team’s goal and taking a shot to score a goal.

Handball was first introduced to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. It reappeared on the Olympic programme twenty years later at the Munich Games in 1972, this time in an indoor format on a 40m x 20m court where two teams of seven players compete against each other, who can dribble the ball with their hands at most every third touch, and keep the ball in their hands at most for three seconds.