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National Post
National Post
29 Jul 2024


NextImg:The Olympic mascot stands for freedom, designer says. Others think it looks like a blob

PARIS — The French invented the modern Olympic Games and the French invented the word “mascot” so how come, people have been asking here, the mascot of France’s first Summer Olympics in a hundred years looks so much like a certain erogenous zone of the female anatomy?

“We thought about that from the start,” says the man who led the design team for the mascots – and the whole pinkish-and-purplish Art Deco template of these Games — and who ran the prototype past his six-year-old daughter in Paris, but not his 102-year-old grandmother in Toronto.