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The Olympic mascots are fictional characters who represent the cultural heritage of the location where the Olympic Games are taking place. They are often an animal native to the area or human figures. One of the first Olympic mascots was created for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble; a stylized cartoon character on skis named Schuss.
Readers of Yugoslav newspapers were asked to choose the mascot for the 1984 Winter Olympics from a list of six finalists. The winner was Vučko, the little wolf, designed by Slovenian designer and illustrator Jože Trobec. The other finalists were a chipmunk, a lamb, a mountain goat, a porcupine, and a snowball. [27]
Vučko (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Вучко) is the Olympic mascot of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.It was created by the Slovenian painter Jože Trobec.The mascot is a wolf, many of which live in the Dinaric Alps, where Sarajevo is located. [1]
Pages in category "1984 Winter Olympics" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Venues of the 1984 Winter Olympics; Vučko (mascot)
The mascots that are used for the Summer and Winter Olympic games are fictional characters, typically a human figure or an animal native to the country to which is holding that year's Olympic Games. The mascots are used to entice an audience and bring joy and excitement to the Olympics festivities. Likewise, many World expositions since 1984 ...
See article Olympic symbols for list and discussion of mascots ... Pages in category "Olympic mascots" ... 0–9. 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games mascots; A. ...
The following is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad. From the inaugural Winter Games in 1924 until 1992, winter and summer Games were held in the same year.
The 1984 Winter Olympics, which were held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia The 1984 Summer Olympics , which were held in Los Angeles, California, United States List of sports-related pages with the same or similar names