A look back at Olympic mascots through the years

Dec11,2023

Bing Dwen Dwen, the official mascot of the 2022 Winter Olympics, has been one of the more popular Olympic mascots in recent memory

Bing Dwen Dwen the Panda

Shuss, a little man on skis, was created in a hurry ahead of the 1968 Games in Grenoble. His designer had just one night to prepare a plan for submission.

Shuss 

This dachshund was shaped like the Olympic marathon route in 1972 in Munich. 

Waldi

The official mascot for the second Winter Olympics was a snowman that wore a Tyrolean hat from the Innsbruck region of Austria.

Schneemann

Amik, a beaver, was chosen after a national competition in Canada ahead of the Montreal Games in 1976

Amik

Lake Placid school children chose Roni for 1980 Winter Olympics, which means "racoon" in Iroquoian, the language of the Indigenous people from the state of New York

Roni

Misha is a bear that appears in many popular stories, songs and poems in Russia, was the official mascot in 1980 Summer Olympics

Misha

Wolves are typically found in Sarajevo, the site of the 1984 Winter Olympics, hence the mascot Vučko.

Vucko

The 1984 Olympics, held in Los Angeles, featured a friendly and cheerful eagle mascot named Sam.

Sam

These two polar bears that were at the Calgary Olympics were intended to represent the region's hospitality and greetings.

Hidy and Howdy

The tiger, the mascot for the Seoul Summer Games 1988, was named "Hodori".

Hodori