The first mascot was featured in the 1968 Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, according to the Olympics. Designed by Aline Lafargue, the character named Schuss had a two-colored head ...

— -- The mascots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were announced Wednesday morning. Students from more than 200,000 classes from around 16,000 schools in Japan and overseas were able to vote ...

— -- Voting for the selection of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic mascots ended Thursday. Japanese elementary students had 73 days to vote for their favorite pair of mascots. More than ...

“The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games finally have their mascots,” said Ryohei Miyata, head of the mascot selection panel. “This means a lot, especially in Japan.

TOKYO — The schoolchildren have had their say: A pair of futuristic digital characters will be the mascots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.

The mascots, which first appeared in public three summers ago, were chosen from a shortlist by elementary school students from around Japan and named by a jury of the Olympic organizing committee.

What’s a Phryge? Here's everything you need to know about the official 2024 Olympic mascot in Paris, including history, ...

Olympic visitors will likely remember not technological advances but the reams of paper forms, glitchy apps and rigid bureaucracy of Japan's anti-COVID measures.