Friday 10 February 2012

Wenlock and Mandeville

Wenlock and Mandeville are the two mascots for the London 2012 Olympic Games

Wenlock and Mandeville, official mascots for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, respectively.

The mascots were unveiled on 19 May 2010; this marks the second time (after Vancouver's Miga, Quatchi, Sumi and Mukmuk) that both Olympic and Paralympic mascots were unveiled at the same time. The mascots were created and designed by iris, a London-based creative agency.Wenlock and Mandeville are animations depicting two drops of steel from a steelworks in Bolton They are named after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, which held a forerunner of the current Olympic Games, and Stoke Mandeville Hospital, a facility in Buckinghamshire that initially organised the Stoke Mandeville Games, the precursor of the Paralympic Games.


               Wenlock                                                                   Mandeville

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