Artist Carole Feuerman aims to inspire with 'Diver' sculpture at Paris Olympics

Artist Carole Feuerman poses with her sculpture 'The Diver' exhibited at the Eiffel Tower for the duration of the Olympics and Paralympics. — Photo: Reuters/Kathryn Lurie

American artist Carole Feuerman, renowned for her super-realist sculptures of swimmers and divers, has a larger-than-life work on exhibit centre stage at the Olympics in Paris.

Her sculpture 'The Diver', made in 2011 of bronze with a black patina and a polished bronze cap, was selected out of thousands of applicants to be exhibited at the Eiffel Tower for the duration of the Olympics and Paralympics.