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The Olympics logo looks like a certain pop star for 2024 Paris Games

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Ricky O'Donnell
Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.

The 2024 Paris Olympics are officially underway, and there are so many great storylines to talk about. USA Basketball is putting its international dominance on the line, and the path to another gold medal won’t be easy for the men or the women with the rest of the world catching up. Olympic legends Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky are back to add to their historic legacies, while new stars like France’s Leon Marchand prepare to become household names.

As the Opening Ceremonies get underway, there are already a few new storylines to emerge that range in importance from Snoop Dogg’s torch looking like a huge blunt to terrifying attacks on the French transit system. There’s something else people are noticing as the Olympics begin: the logo for the 2024 Paris Games — which is supposed to be a flame — looks an awful lot like a person.

Do you see it? Now I can’t stop seeing it.

Specifically, the person this logo looks like is ... Mary J. Blige.

This has to be a good omen for Team USA at the Olympics. Mary J. Blige is one of our finest Americans.

It probably wasn’t intentional for the Paris Games to make their official logo look like a woman with a bob haircut and lips, but after noticing it, I’ll never see anything else.

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