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London 2012 Olympic Games mascots unveiled

20/5/2010

 
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TWO creatures called Mandeville and Wenlock were unveiled as mascots for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games created a cartoon and signed up best-selling children’s writer Michael Morpurgo to build a background story for the abstract mascots.

Children from St Paul’s Whitechapel Primary School in the east London Olympic borough were the first members of the public to see the London 2012 Olympic Games mascots in action.

Wenlock is named after the Shropshire village of Much Wenlock, where the Wenlock Games was one of the inspirations for Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement, to create the Olympics. London 2012 Olympic Games mascot Mandeville is named after Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, where a forerunner of the modern Paralympic Games was first held.


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