ICYMI: The choice by Paris 2024 Olympics officials to represent the Games with a cuddly Phrygian cap is proving a harder sell than expected, after critics pounced on the fact that French firms will make only a small fraction of the toys.
PARIS — The choice by Paris 2024 Olympics officials to represent the Games with a cuddly Phrygian cap is proving a harder sell than expected, after critics pounced on the fact that French firms will make only a small fraction of the toys.
But even though two French toymakers got the contract, the Paris Olympics committee said just eight percent of the mascots will be made in France — from Chinese-produced materials — and the remainder outsourced to China. “It’s a structural problem due to the fact that for years, France has lost its factories,” he told France 2 television.
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