Video: Wenlock and Mandeville - mascots of the London Olympics
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There are just over two years left before the London Summer Olympics. It's time to start preparing the public for this grand sporting event. This is exactly what the organizers of the Olympics thought and presented the mascots of these games - creatures with the names Wenlock and Mandeville.
Wenlock is named after the English town of Much Wenlock in Shropshire. Indeed, according to legend, it was there, while at the traditional local sports competitions, that Baron de Coubertin planned to hold the modern Olympic Games.
Mandeville is also named after the village of Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire. In this village in 1948, the first Stoke Mandeville Games for the disabled took place, which then grew into the Paralympic Games.
The mascots were developed by one of the world's most famous creative companies - Iris. According to their idea, the battlements on the heads of Wenlock and Mandeville repeat the battlements on the roof of the Olympic Stadium in London. The huge eyes symbolize the television cameras that allow billions of spectators to watch the competition at the Olympics. And the combination of gold, silver and bronze colors on the clothes of the talismans remind, of course, of the Olympic medals.
Get ready. In two years, Wenlock and Mandeville will be the most popular fantasy creatures in the world.
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