Tourists wait in long queues outside the official Paris 2024 boutique as they seek to get their hands on the triangular Olympic Phryge mascot. The official Olympic Phryge mascot is a nod to the Phrygian cap, an emblematic accessory of the French revolutionaries. Revived from Roman times, when freed slaves used to wear it, the revolutionaries adopted it as a testimony to their values of freedom and emancipation for both men and women.
