This archive report was first published on 23 October 2019.
Published on October 23, 2019, the Paris 2024 Olympics logo has sparked ridicule online for its apparent resemblance to a stereotypical Parisian woman.
The logo, unveiled on Monday, incorporates the art deco style popular in 1924, when Paris last hosted the Games, and features an Olympic flame within a gold medal.
However, the addition of Marianne, the personification of liberty and the French Republic since the revolution of 1789, has been mocked for adding an unnecessarily seductive character to the motif.
Paris-based journalist Megan Clement described the logo as 'The French Olympic logo tumbles out of bed on a Parisian morning,' and went on to describe a stereotypical Parisian woman's daily routine.
Others compared the flame motif to the logo of dating app Tinder and suggested the silhouette of Marianne brought to mind the retro hairstyle made popular by Jennifer Aniston in the American sitcom 'Friends.'
One Twitter user joked, 'The artist's muse, the poet's dream, and the girl your mother warned you about. She's fashionably late for everything. She'll make out with your husband at a party and then wonder why you're mad.'
