While the Paris mascot was chosen well in advance, Shuss was designed in a hurry — his designer had just one night to prepare a submission. The 1972 Munich Games featured Waldi, a dachshund.

List of the Olympics Mascots Year-on-Year. The first ever Olympic mascot was "Smoky" from the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and then the idea of a mascot was reused 36 years later, in 1968 ...

Mascots have been a key element of the Olympics since the Winter Games in Grenoble, France, in 1968. It was named Schuss and was a cartoon character on skis. Waldi was the first official mascot, a ...