A multi-coloured dachshund dog named 'Waldi' captured the spirit of the Olympics in Munich, Germany that year. Since then there have been animal mascots, imaginary characters, mythical creatures ...

These two polar bears that were at the Calgary Olympics were intended to represent the region's hospitality and greetings. The tiger, the mascot for the Seoul Summer Games, was named "Hodori." The ...

Per the 2024 Paris Olympics site, the Phryges were "chosen as symbols of freedom and to represent allegorical figures of the ...

The Olympic Games didn't have any official mascots at the beginning. They started over 50 years ago. There have been animals, mythical creatures and even a cyclops! Waldi, a daschshund or wiener ...

and during the Paris 1924 Olympic Games. "Rather than an animal, our mascots represent an ideal," Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet said when the mascot was first revealed in 2022. "Since it is ...

Both animals appear in South Korea’s foundation mythology ... and cheers for the athletes while championing harmony and equality. The official mascots for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games ...

Live mascots are fun because animals are good and often cute. But the thing about animals is that we don't share a language with them and they lack complex reasoning skills. This adds an element ...

An example of this in the Olympics is 'Vinicius' the 2016 mascot for Rio which was a merge of different Brazilian animals to represent the diversity of Brazilian culture and it's people.

and cultural identity are exhibited in everything from live animal mascots which bring traditions to life to entire sports built around animal participants. This article explores how animals work in ...

Wenlock and Mandeville, the official London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic mascots, inspired by the Union ... 2012 "weren’t attracted to human or animal – they just wanted a good story." ...