The Olympic mascots first appeared at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. This German dachshund named Valdi is a combination of several main colors of Munich Olympic Games, and its appearance is quite cute. However, at that time, mascots were not fully utilized and did not attract considerable attention.
1976 winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria also introduced mascots for the first time. The snowman, round snow-white snowman, Tyrol hat, red carrot and Portuguese nose in Austrian mountainous area are very pleasing.
1976 The Montreal Olympic Games was held in Canada, and the mascot has become a tradition of the Olympic Games. The animal chosen as the mascot is a beaver named Amik, which means beaver in Altun. Beaver was chosen as the mascot of the Montreal Olympic Games because it represents friendship, patience, tolerance and efforts to help build Canada. The red ribbon represents the ribbon on the Olympic medals, which means that winning medals in the Olympic Games depends on hard training and winning friendship in the Olympic Games.
1980 the mascot of the Jing Hu winter Olympics is named Roni, which is the abbreviation of the name of the American iloc Indian raccoon. Raccoons and iloc Indians are both local aborigines and protozoans in Jinghu Lake and are protected by the local government.
1980 the Moscow Olympic games was boycotted by the United States and other western groups, but the Soviet union still held the Olympic games and was not affected. The mascot of the Moscow Olympic Games is a lovely bear named Misa. There are many kinds of bears in the Soviet Union, and Misa was chosen as the mascot to beat the polar bear. Moscow 1998 World Youth Games once again chose the bear as the mascot, and its shape is quite similar to that of Misa. Russia says Misha is a descendant. Misha was given the mission of spreading the Olympic message around the world, and even went into space with two astronauts.
Vucko, the mascot of Salalah 1984 Winter Olympic Games, is a wolf. It has also been given the task of sending Olympic messages to all parts of the world, climbing mountains and even riding camels across the desert.
1984 The mascot of the Los Angeles Olympic Games is a cartoon masterpiece of Disney. This eagle named Sam is set on the background of the American Stars and Stripes. Red, white and blue are the representative colors of the United States. The eagle in the cartoon is dressed in the costume representing American legend Uncle Sam, and the mascot designed by Disney is full of American flavor. The commercial use of mascots also began from this time.
1988 The mascot of the Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Canada consists of two anthropomorphic polar bears named Hidy and Howdy respectively. Two polar bears put on jeans and appeared in a line. This is the first time that the Olympic mascot has appeared in a team as a man and a woman.
1988 Seoul Olympic Games was held in the East. Koreans chose an oriental tiger as the mascot of the Seoul Olympic Games, named Hodori, and wore a hat of a traditional Korean farmer. The ribbon on the hat was wound into an S-shape, which just formed the prefix of the English word Seoul in Korea.
1992 The Winter Olympics was held in Albert, France. The design and naming of mascots are child-centered. This star-shaped mascot is named "Magic on Ice". In order to let all the children in kindergarten know about the Winter Olympics, the preparatory meeting invited more than 4,000 children to make up stories for the mascots and publicize the Olympic knowledge.
1992 The mascot chosen by Spain for the Barcelona Olympic Games is an animal that looks like a goat and a dog. It was named Cobi, and the preparatory meeting specially produced a series for it on Spanish TV to promote the Olympic Games.
1994 The Winter Olympic Games was held two years apart from the Summer Olympic Games for the first time. In the Winter Games held in Norway, two protagonists in Norwegian fairy tales were used as mascots of this Winter Olympics, and were named after the famous characters in the story, King Hakone and his menstruation Christine, which made the mascots of this Olympic Games different from previous Olympic Games.
1996 the Olympic games came to Atlanta, USA, where commerce and technology are at the forefront, and the production of mascots was discussed again. This time, Americans used computer technology to make a mascot that no one could see. The name is "Whatizit". Later, this name was not accepted, and it was changed to Isi, which means the same thing, just to let you guess what it is. Although I don't know what it is, this mascot was launched at the closing ceremony of the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992, which immediately aroused discussion and completely achieved the purpose of publicity.
1998 The Winter Olympics was held in Nagano, Japan. The Japanese chose four owls as mascots, which was the first Olympic Games with four kinds of animals as mascots. The four mascots are named Snowlets, each with a different name, namely Sukki, Nokki, Lekki and Tsukki, which respectively represent four different elements of forest life, namely fire, wind, land and water. This also means that Japan has declared to the world the significance of attaching importance to forest protection with the help of this Olympic Games, and the English prefixes of the four names add up to only snow.
The mascots of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games are represented by three unique animals in Australia, namely, the nearly pure platypus, the kookaburra and the echidna.