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Gallery: Olympic Mascots

 

A gallery entirely dedicated to the entertaining and colourful Olympic mascots.

 
January 7, 2010
 
 
 
2006 Turin Winter Olympics mascots friendly snowball called Neve (L), red body and a round head, poses with her playful ice cube partner Gliz, blue body and a square head, during the official presentation in Rome.
 

2006 Turin Winter Olympics mascots friendly snowball called Neve (L), red body and a round head, poses with her playful ice cube partner Gliz, blue body and a square head, during the official presentation in Rome.

Photograph by: Giulio Napolitano, Getty Images

 
2006 Turin Winter Olympics mascots friendly snowball called Neve (L), red body and a round head, poses with her playful ice cube partner Gliz, blue body and a square head, during the official presentation in Rome.
Hodori the Olympic mascot holds teh Olympic torch above his head during the the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Portrait of 1988 Winter Olympic Games mascots 'Hidy' and 'Howdy' during the World Cup in Calgary, Canada.
Sam the Eagle, the mascot for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics marches around the stadium during the opening ceremony.
Matt Lauer (2nd from L), Katie Couric (C) and Al Roker (2nd from R) get a visit from the Athens 2004 Olympic mascots Phevos (L) and Athena on the set of the NBC Today show on August 12, 2004 which has moved to Athens for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
Portrait of Smoky, the official mascot for the Olympic Games who was born in the Olympic Village before the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, USA.
The Sydney 2000 Mascots celebrate the end of the 2000 Olympics during the Closing Ceremony held at the Olympic Stadium on day 16 of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia on October 1st, 2000.
The Olympic mascots 'Millie' the euchidna (L), 'Ollie' the Kookaburra (C) and 'Syd' the platypus (R) dance May 1999 at the offical launch of the 500-day countdown before the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Izzy, the Mascot of the Centennial Olympics, walks by spectators during the opening ceremony of the Centennial Olympic park 13 July in Atlanta.
From left, members of the Cuban Olympic team Hector Perez, greco-roman wrestler; Javier Sotomayor, high jumper; Idalberto Aranda, 70kg weightlifter; and Angel Luis, volley ball player, joke with the Olympic mascot 'Izzy' at their arrival at the accreditation center 15 July at Atlanta airport.
The Athens 2004 summer games official mascot is seen 24 August 2004, during the Olympic Games athletics competitions at the Olympic Stadium in Athens.
Minister for the Olympics, cuts a portion of the world's longest Olympic cake with Sydney 2000 mascots 'Syd' the platypus (L), 'Millie' the euchidna (2nd R) and 'Ollie' the kookaburra (R) by Sydney Harbour.
Fuwa, mascots of the 2008 Beijing Olympics pose inside a replica of the National Aquatics Center, dubbed the 'Water Cube' at Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong, China.
Olympic mascots are seen in the pool at the National Aquatics Center during day 3 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
A young Chinese fan reacts to the camera as she plays with 'Jingjing' (R), one of the five Beijing Olympic mascots prior to the start of the men's team table tennis bronze play-off round during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the Peking University Gymnasium in Beijing.
Mascots of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games pose infront of a historic collosieum in Athens, Greece.
Mascosts Copper, Coal and Powder pose as a skier takes flight in the background at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
French skater Nathalie Pechalat poses with the mascots Neve (L) and ice cube partner Gliz upon her arrival with the French delegation at the Turin Olympic Village.
2010 Olympic Games mascot Quatchi skates during the official opening of the GE Ice Plaza in Vancouver, Canada November 23, 2009. The GE Ice Plaza will be the centre of holiday activities in the heart of Vancouver prior to the 2010 Winter Games, and home to performances and events during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games begin on February 12, 2010.
Vancouver 2010 Olympic mascots attend WNBC's Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting celebration at Rock Center Cafe on December 2, 2009 in New York, New York.
A player of South Korea stretches as a mascot of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games mimics him during a men's handball placement 5-8 match of the Games between South Korea and Poland on August 22, 2008 in Beijing.
Paralympics mascots LeLe, the female cow, take to the court during a timeout behind Nick Springer of the US in a game against China in their mixed wheelchair rugby game at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games on September 11, 2008 at the USTB Gymnasium in Beijing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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