Thursday, December 01, 2011

Wenlock and Mandeville official mascots 2012 Summer Olympics & Paralympics Photographs

Wenlock and Mandeville  official mascots 2012 Summer Olympics & Paralympics Photographs



Wenlock official mascot 2012 Summer Olympics


Wenlock and Mandeville are the official mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics being held in London, United Kingdom


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.




Mandeville official mascot 2012 Summer Paralympics