Meet Tom, the Paralympic mascot of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games ... a Brazilian bossa nova song that has reached worldwide fame. The Olympic counterpart to Tom is also named after a musician, the ...

Rio's Summer Olympics mascot, Vinicius, was as colorful as the city he represented. A mix of Brazilian animals from real life and animation, he was designed by professionals at Birdo Produções ...

His designer had just one night to prepare a plan for submission. The official mascot for the second Winter Olympics was a snowman that wore a Tyrolean hat from the Innsbruck region of Austria. Lake ...

The mascot is described as encompassing "Rio's landscape, Brazilian spirit and Olympic values like the torch, gold and championship." A public vote will determine which of three names will be ...

An example of this in the Olympics is 'Vinicius' the 2016 mascot for Rio which was a merge of different Brazilian animals to represent the diversity of Brazilian culture and it's people.

Editor’s note: Follow Olympics opening ceremony live updates. Mascots are synonymous with sports, and the Olympics, worldwide event that they are, prove no different, Indeed, they have a rich ...