Paris Olympics features cloaked figure riding a pale horse

appearing to evoke Revelation 6:8 in the Bible and the Fourth horseman of the apocalypse.

In Revelation, the fourth horsemen rides a pale horse and is identified as Death.

“And when he had opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat upon him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword, and with hunger, and with death and with the beasts of the earth.”