The Paris Olympics Is Embracing the Memes
Briefly

If being glued to the Games in Paris was a skill, the people running the official Olympics social media accounts would have earned gold. Their post, picturing Simone Biles' multiple medals... is just one of the many times the social media accounts of the Olympic Games and Paris 2024 have embraced or created memes.
The Paris Games have already gifted viewers with a treasure trove of indelible characters... the official Olympics social media accounts have joined in on the fun... While regular social media users can often be credited with latching onto quirky moments and sending them to virality...
When a photo that caught Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina mid-air quickly emerged as one of the most iconic photos of this summer's Olympics, it was given an editing treatment that's out of this world... A series of posts by Paris 2024 photoshopped the surfer floating further and further into the sky until he was saying hello to French astronaut Thomas Pesquet in space.
After French swimmer Leon Marchand made history by winning gold in two separate events in the same evening, the official Paris 2024 account posted a photo of Marchand that sought to capture a collective sentiment of awe and disbelief...
Read at time.com
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