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. The official mascot for the second Winter ...

Although the 1972 Paralympics were held in the same country as the 1972 Olympics, the Games did not take place in the same city. The Olympic Games took place in Munich, while the Paralympics took ...

An Olympic Games that should have been remembered for the remarkable achievement of America's Mark Spitz, winner of a record seven gold medals in the pool, or Olga Korbut, the tiny Soviet gymnast ...

The word mascot comes from an opera called La Mascotte that was performed in France in 1880. The lead opera singer was so well-received that jewellers created a bracelet charm of the adored singer ...

The 1972 Paralympics were not held in Munich, the venue of the Olympics, despite the International Stoke Mandeville Games Committee hoping for the German Disabled Sports Association (DVS) to stage the ...

Pro-Israel critics said a vocal critic of Israel was a poor choice to represent a shoe associated with an Olympics where 11 Israelis died in a hostage-taking by Palestinian terrorists. Adidas said ...