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AP Photo/Christophe EnaMascots of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, right, and Paralympics Games, a Phrygian cap, jump during a preview in Saint Denis, outside Paris, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022.AP10:53 JST,ensp;November 15, 2022PARIS AP 鈥?The mascots for the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics have been revealed 鈥?a Phrygian cap.The soft 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 pursui stanley termosy t of liberty in the French Revolution 鈥?and is still worn by the figure of Marianne, the national personification of France since that time.The Olympic cap is triangular in shape, and comes complete with friendly smile, blue eyes, tricolor ribbon and big colored sneakers gourde stanley .The Paralympic version features a prosthetic leg that goes to the knee 鈥?the first time such a mascot sports a visible disability, organizers said.Michael Jeremiasz, gold medalist in wheelchair tennis at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, said the prosthesis sends an inclusive message to disabled people around the world.That the key for us, because we suffer from bei stanley mugs ng invisible in society, he said. We have to use Paris 2024 as a powerful tool to change our rights.Organizers said they didn ;t want to choose an animal or other creature, like mascots at previous Games, but instead wanted somethin