2014 Winter Olympics - Mascots

Mascots

On 26 February 2011, at 11.20 pm (GMT+3) the final results of the public vote during the live television show "Talismaniya Sochi 2014 – The Final” were announced on the first Channel. The election council made the decision that the top-three characters with maximum number of votes would all become the Olympic Winter Games mascots:

• the Polar Bear (by Oleg Serdechniy, Sochi),
• the Hare (by Silviya Petrova, New Buyanovo village of Yankovsky region, Chuvash Republic)
• the Leopard (by Vadim Pak, Nakhodka)

All three animals are indigenous animals found in Southern Russia in the Caucasus Mountains near Sochi.

Commenting on the results of the live vote, Dmitry Chernyshenko, President and CEO of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, said:

«Today, the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games have adopted its own symbols and, for the first time in the history of the Olympic Movement, the whole country was involved in choosing the mascots. There are three mascots for the Olympic Winter Games, representing the three places on the Olympic podium. All top-three characters according to the Olympic system will become the Olympic Winter Games mascots. The mascots are the choice of the whole our country and will remain in the history of the Olympic movement».