Paris 2024
The mascots for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games have been unveiled.
These are the Olympic Phryge and the Paralympic Phryge.
While recently the mascots of several games have had the image of an animal, these mascots are meant to represent an ideal.
They are therefore like a Phrygian hat, a symbol of liberty that appears on French coins and stamps, in French art, and in town halls across France. Marianne – the symbol of the French Revolution – wears a Phrygian cap and is one of the main inspirations for the Paris 2024 mascots.
Just as the logos of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games are the same, with the exception of the Olympic rings and the Paralympic Agitos, the mascots of the two games also have the same shape. The only difference is that the Paralympic mascot wears a racing prosthesis – a carbon blade – to represent paraathletes and people with disabilities and to promote the values of sporting inclusion.
Olympian Phryge is described as having “methodological wits and mad charm”. The Paralympic Phryge is described as spontaneous, with infectious energy and enthusiasm, and always open to new sporting experiences.
The new generation of Phryges is on a mission to lead a revolution through sport. They will show the French that sport can change everything and that it deserves a leading place in our society. This revolution will follow the other revolutions in French history, such as the pivotal artistic revolution of the Impressionist painters in the late 19th century and the Cultural Revolution that emerged from student protests in the late 1960s.
The design of the mascots took over a year, from the first sketch to the creation of the plush prototype of the Phrygian Caps and the elaboration of their personality. They can be seen in more than 71 sporty variations, each designed to illustrate a sporting gesture that is as dynamic and representative as possible.
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