The 2014 Winter Olympics mascot released 1 million people to participate

Core Tip: The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games mascots were announced on the 26th. After a national referendum on live broadcasts in Russia, the handsome snow leopards, nagging polar bears and cute rabbits became the auspicious of this Olympic Winter Games. Things.

The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games mascots were announced on the 26th. After a national referendum on live broadcasts in Russia, the handsome snow leopards, nasty polar bears and cute rabbits became the mascots of the Winter Olympics.

Snow Leopard Snow Leopard became the star with the highest vote rate that night, winning a total of 28% of the vote. The Organizing Committee of the Sochi Winter Olympics decided to select the top three most popular candidate mascots as the final plan. At the same time, Sunshine Boy and Snowflake Girls were chosen as the Paralympic mascot.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin also expressed his own preference for snow leopards. He said: “Snow Leopard is very strong and moves quickly. It is a combination of power and beauty.” Snow Leopard is one of the rarest and endangered cats in the world and is currently in Russia. The territory only grows in the Ussuriysk area of ​​the Primorsky Territory in the Far East.

On September 1st last year, the rabbit organizing committee of the Sochi Winter Olympics started mascot collection activities across the globe. After the first three months of recruitment, the jury selected 11 out of the 24,000 designs received as a candidate for the Sochi Winter Olympics mascot. These 11 programs are Snow Leopard, Sun, Snowflake, Rabbit, Dolphin, Santa Claus, Matryoshka, etc.

According to the organizing committee of the Olympic Winter Games, the designers of the winning scheme will receive two tickets and special gifts for the best locations of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. The Sochi Winter Olympics will be held from February 7 to 23, 2014 in the Russian coastal city of Sochi, which will be Russia’s first Winter Olympics.

Polar Bear The mascot of the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics was a Russian brown bear, designed by the famous children's book illustrator Victor Kirikov. According to reports on February 27th of the Russian News and Information Network, during the interview with Radio Voice of Moscow in the same day, Chizhkov expressed that polar bears, one of the mascots of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, copied their own works.

Chizhkov said: "This white polar bear completely 'steal' me, including eyes, nose, mouth and smile, despite some changes."

In an interview with the media last year, Kirikov pointed out that the best mascot of the Sochi Winter Olympics is the bear. “I think we don’t need to avoid the traditional image. In order to design a new mascot, I’m willing to choose this one.” Traditional image, everyone likes it." However, the organizing committee of Sochi Winter Olympics did not ask for help from Chirikov. Chirikov also stated that he himself did not have the copyright of the 1980 Brown Bear mascot of the Moscow Olympics because the relevant legal documents did not exist and the then Olympic Committee refused to sign an agreement with it.

It is reported that the mascots of the Sochi Winter Olympics have been voted out by the Russian national vote, with snow leopards, polar bears and rabbits winning the top three. Nearly 1 million Russians took part in the voting by sending cell phone messages and calling toll-free hotlines.