That well-defined six-sided shape is pretty freaky, but it's actually a natural outcome of a spinning fluid — the air circulating Saturn's atmosphere — which itself is in a spinning system — in this case, the planet itself.
Parisian jewelry house Chaumet designed the medals, which were part of the Games' lasting legacy. A hexagonal, polished chunk of iron taken from the iconic Eiffel Tower was embedded in each gold, silver and bronze medal.
Sometimes, you think that you're handing out a worksheet just reviewing the names of shapes. But then instead of getting back hexagon and octagon, you get back this.