Organizers said instead of an animal, they wanted something that represented an “ideal” for the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics mascot.
PARIS, France — The mascots for the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics have been revealed — a Phrygian cap.
The soft bright red cap, also known as a liberty cap, is an updated version of a conical hat worn in antiquity in places such as Persia, the Balkans, Thrace, Dacia and Phrygia, a place in modern day Turkey where the name originates. It later became a symbol of the pursuit of liberty in the French Revolution — and is still worn by the figure of
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