He was meant to watch over the athletes and spectators of the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea, giving them protection during their time there. Rio's Summer Olympics mascot, Vinicius, was as ...

This was the first time in Olympic history that a mascot ... Vučko the wolf mascot for Sarajevo was chosen in a contest entered by over 800 participants. Not only is the wolf a prominent figure ...

His designer had just one night to prepare a plan for submission. The official mascot for the second Winter Olympics was a snowman that wore a Tyrolean hat from the Innsbruck region of Austria. Lake ...

“Rather than an animal, our mascots represent an ideal,” Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet said in a statement at the time ... or get over defeats." France introduced the "first" Olympic ...

It marked the second time that Tokyo had been awarded the Olympic Games ... the official mascot of the Tokyo Olympics: The mascot was selected through a voting process, with Japanese schoolchildren at ...

Miga, a snowboarding sea bear, and Quatchi, a shy and gentle giant, both mascots for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, were presented at the same time. Designed by the ... it will be loved by ...

Wenlock and Mandeville, the official London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic mascots, inspired by the Union ... these athletes” The American, a seven-time Olympic champion, referred to the case ...

A company selected to sell stuffed mascot dolls for the Tokyo Summer Games gave millions of yen to an acquaintance of a suspect in the widening Olympic bribery scandal, investigative sources said.