The Organizing Committee offered a cash prize to anyone who had the chosen design and, as a result, received more than 4, entries. After this initial phase, 14 artists were selected for the final and the design chosen was for a tiger wearing a hat typical of South Korean folk musicians with a ribbon in the shape of the letter S from Seoul.
The tiger is part of the country's focus because it represents vigor and fighting spirit. The name was chosen from more than 6 thousand options, a mixture of horangi, which means tiger, and dori, short for boy. Gomdoori is a Korean word derived from "Teddy Bear", While bears are commonly associated with wisdom and courage, the two have their legs tied together, symbolizing the ability to overcome adversity through cooperation and encourage humanity to work together in peace and harmony.
They were the mascots of the Seoul Paralympic Games. In the Barcelona Olympic Games, the chosen one was Cobi, a dog with a modern design and a simple name: a reduced form of the Barcelona Organizing Committee and easy to be pronounced in any language.
Made by the same creator of Cobi, Javier Mariscal, Petra is a positive, outgoing, independent, energetic, courageous girl who has no arms. She was the mascot of the Barcelona Paralympic Games. It cannot be denied that Izzy, the mascot chosen for the Atlanta Olympic Games, had his sympathy there.
A Phoenix was chosen as the mascot of the Atlanta Paralympic Games not only as a symbol of renewal, perseverance and determination, but also because of the importance of the Phoenix being the symbol of the city of Atlanta. Designed by Trevor Irvin, the bright colors, great wingspan and height of the Paralympic mascot make it the embodiment of the will and determination of people with a disability to achieve a full life for themselves.
For the first time, there were three mascots in an edition of the Sydney Olympic Games. Made by designer Matthew Harton, who won a contest open to competitors from around the world, they represented native Australian animals. Olly, whose name derives from the Olympics, is a kookaburra bird, Syd, reduced version of Sydney, is a platypus, and Millie, named after the new millennium, was an echidna, a kind of porcupine.
Lizzy, the collared caterpillar, was chosen as the mascot of the Sydney Paralympic Games. The clothing of the Paralympic mascot, colored in green and gold and in the shape of Australia, represents the country, with the ocher body mirroring the color of the earth. Lizzy's strength, determination and attitude symbolize all Paralympic athletes participating in the Games. The mascots of the Athens Olympic Games were a tribute to Greek mythology, but they were not very charismatic.
Athena and Phevos were named after the brothers of Olympus. Athena was the goddess of wisdom and gave the name to the host city of the Olympics. Phevos was the other name for Apollo, god of light and music. The inspiration for the drawing, made by S. Spyros Gogos, the creator of Proteas, took a deliberate step away from previous Paralympic mascot designs and created what for him best represents the nature of competitions and the athletes' constant goal of achieving excellence.
The Beijing Olympic Games had the mark of ostentation and, at times, of exaggeration. The opening ceremony was the most expensive in history and the Olympic torch relay was fired the longest and had the largest number of conductors. All of this was also reflected in the mascots. They have never been so many: five in all!
Winschermann was working as part of the team led by designer Otl Achter, who was responsible for the graphic identity of the Games that year. Waldi had a light blue head and tail. Their body was covered in vertical stripes, three of which were the same colors as three of the Olympic rings. In the early years, it was customary to design a mascot based on an animal or character that was considered representative of the host city or country.
However, when it came to choosing which animal Misha would be, a poll was conducted by the television program V mire zhivotnykh Animal World and the newspaper Sovetski Sport. The vast majority of the more than 45, responses voted in favor of the brown bear. Once the animal had been decided, organizers held a competition inviting people to submit designs. The winning entry was designed by Viktor Chizhikov. The creator explained in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that it didn't take long to come up with the bear's smiling face and robust body, but it took months to transform her into an Olympian.
In the end, Chizhikov turned Misha into an athlete by giving her a weightlifter's belt, the buckle of which featured the Olympic rings. Bob Moore, a legendary artist for Disney, designed a bald eagle named Sam. The mascot bore a strong resemblance to well-known characters that had been created by the animation studio up until then. Sam wears a hat and bow tie featuring the colors of the American flag.
You may be interested to learn that, before Sam was an eagle, the team considered designing another bear, seeing as the grizzly is a symbol of California. However, in the end, they discarded this option because it would be too similar to the Moscow Games' Misha the bear. Moore's team then worked on animated versions of different animals and plants, from snakes and bison to orange trees and palm trees.
Eventually, they opted for a bald eagle, which is the national bird of the United States. His wings were also drawn to function as arms and his feathers as fingers, making it easier to apply the design to different illustrations adorning items such as T-shirts, mugs, and pins.
Cobi was the official mascot for the Barcelona Olympic Games, designed by the legendary illustrator and designer Javier Mariscal. Like the emblem, the mascot identifies a particular Olympic Games, but in a way more guaranteed to inspire affection. The same jury that had to choose the Olympic emblem examined the different proposals for the mascot, talked to the designers before they began to implement the projects and, on 29 January , chose the one by Javier Mariscal.
It consisted of an image of a human-looking dog, with open arms, sketched in a thick, uneven, black line and treated with a false perspective that gave it a flattened effect. Although it was an anthropomorphic animal, the quality of the drawing and the treatment of colour flat colours with neither gradations nor textures and a tendency to shun the primaries made it quite different from most earlier Olympic mascots, all of which had been clearly influenced by the Walt Disney school of cartoons.
In order to make the mascot more acceptable to the general public, Josep M.
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