Olympic mascots

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  Every Olympic has different representative mascot for the country starting from 1968. For the olden days, mostly are in 2D form as the time pass, slowly they design in 3D. Mascots are used for marketing in attracting young children and toddlers. During Olympic season, mascots are printed on t-shirts or make as accessories like toys, keychains, earrings and etc.

Schuss for Grenoble 1968
  Schuss is the first Winter Olympic mascot. It was a little man on skis and was coloured with colours of France : blue, white and red. As you can see, the logo of Olympic rings were haven't join together.

Fuwa, Beijing China 2008
  This is my favourite Olympic mascots among all. Fuwa means lucky dolls. There were five dolls and each of the have their own names. According to the design (fish, giant panda, Olympic flame, Tibetan antelope and swallow), the name follows with Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan,Yingying and Nini. When this five names combined (Beijing Huanyingni), it means Beijing welcomes you. Also, each of them represent the five elements in Fengshui (water, wood, fire, earth and metal). When the Fuwa was first published, it attracted a lot of people to buy it and use it as for commercial all around in China.



Wenlock, London 2012
  Wenlock is also one of the attracting mascot due to his one eye feature. Its eye represents the camera. The bracelet it wearing is according to the Olympic Rings colour. Also, his body look like hydrostatic skeleton *bouncy bouncy*

Vinicius from Rio 2016
  Vinicius was designed in bright colours like yellow and orange. This is because its main purpose is to spread joy throughout the world also celebrate friendship that flourishes between people from all over the world. It is a kind of cat that represent Brazilians. As you focus on its body, Rio also created a logo for their Olympic.

Soohorang, Pyeongchang 2018
  Soohorang, a white tiger as this Olympic is winter olympic. The white tiger also represent trust, strength and protection according to Korean mythology.

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