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 Penn State student section chants for the Nittany Lion at every home game. Not every mascot is a gem and a hit that lives on for generations. Some are downright weird and, truth be told ...

REUTERS/Daniel Munoz/File Photo At first, it looked like an April Fool’s Day joke when the Australian white ibis emerged as a contender to become the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games mascot.

A company selected to sell stuffed mascot dolls for the Tokyo Summer Games gave millions of yen to an acquaintance of a suspect in the widening Olympic bribery scandal, investigative sources said.

The final two options were projected onto a screen to a steady drum beat. Suddenly, the mascot of a lion emerged, a lion flag waved, as students cheered and streamers rained down. At Thursday’s ...

A woman interacts with the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics mascot Bing Dwen Dwen. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse Bing Dwen Dwen, the official mascot of the Beijing Winter Games, has become an international ...