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Håkon and Kristin were the official mascots of the 1994 Winter Olympics, and Sondre was the official mascot of the 1994 Winter Paralympics, both held in Lillehammer, Norway. Håkon and Kristin are two happy Norwegian children, a boy and a girl, both dressed in Viking clothes. Although they wear medieval clothes referring to their historical ...
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games (Norwegian: De 17. olympiske vinterleker; Nynorsk: Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, were an international winter multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway.
The 1994 Winter Paralympics (Norwegian: Paralympiske vinterleker 1994; Nynorsk: Paralympiske vinterleikane 1994), the sixth Paralympic Winter Games, were held in Lillehammer, Norway, from 10 to 19 March 1994.The Lillehammer Paralympics were the second time that the Games were held in Norway, after the 1980 Winter Paralympics in Geilo. 471 athletes from 31 countries participated, with Norway ...
The colors of the mascot are based on those of the French flag. [4] 1992 Summer Olympics: Barcelona: Cobi: Catalan sheepdog: Javier Mariscal: Drawn in avant-garde, cubist style [4] 1994 Winter Olympics: Lillehammer: Håkon and Kristin: Humans: Kari and Werner Grossman: Both are dressed in Viking clothes. They are the first Olympic mascots to be ...
Lillehammer organizing committee launched an international mascot design competition in March and April 2014. The competition required that the design proposals would be on an animal (ordinary animal or a fantasy one), look youthful, be kind and open, sporty, and represent the look of Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games.
The first official Olympic mascot dates back to the 1968 Grenoble Games in France when "Shuss ... the first Paralympic mascot to feature a visible disability since Lillehammer 1994’s “Sondre
The 1992 Winter Olympics, ... Falun, Lillehammer, and Sofia. The 91st IOC Session, held in Lausanne ... The mascot was created by Philippe Mairesse and replaced ...
The Olympic oaths were issued by Vegard Ulvang for the athletes and Kari Kåring for the officials. [5] Finnish Sami poet Nils-Aslak Valkeapää performed at the opening ceremony. On the day of the opening ceremonies, art thieves stole Edvard Munch 's masterpiece The Scream from the National Museum in Oslo.