GamesBids.com: Annecy 2018 Puts Fresh Spin On Familiar Logo

Annecy 2018 Puts Fresh Spin On Familiar Logo
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GB Editor on Tuesday, December 1, 2009  8:15am EST
 
At an outdoor celebration in Annecy, France Tuesday, a new logo marking the
city's bid for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games was unveiled.  The event was held
at the Pâquier - the proposed site for the Games' opening ceremony.
The logo is generally the same as the abstract blue mountain imagery used during
the bid's domestic phase with the addition of the Olympic ring colours and the
phrase "applicant city" that is required of all bid logos.
Thousands in attendance watched officials and athletes untie ribbons in the
colours of the Olympic rings to unveil a large image of the redesigned logo.
Annecy bid organizers used this opportunity to kick off a trip to Lausanne for a
required information seminar that will also be attended by competing bids from
PyeongChang, Korea and Munich, Germany.
The bid's new look will be used throughout the campaign that ends with the final
election in Durban, South Africa on July 6, 2011.