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China: Olympic mascots from the past

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 @ 19:13 UTC

by John Kennedy

Countries:: China
Topics:: Arts & Culture, History, Sport, Entertainment
Languages:: English
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Raider_dad at Fark.com forums posts a link to a list of all Olympic mascots dating back to 1968. Seeing Amik the Montreal beaver, reader Visceral Realist quips: “1976 looks nothing like the beavers I've seen.” See if you recognize (or remember) the rest here.

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bob

i would lk 2 nw y u r so kool

# 2008-08-13 at 5:19 am

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