Olympic Games
It will be a leopard mascot of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. The new symbol of the Olympic Games was chosen on live TV channel on Channel 1 television viewers are Russians who have the winner with 28% of the vote compared to 18% of the polar bear and 16% of the hare.
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A choice that has fully complied with even Prime Minister Putin: "The leopard is strong, powerful, fast and beautiful. Leopards have been exterminated here, in the Caucasus, and they are now repopulating. If the Olympic project would involve at least part of the rebirth of an element of nature that had been eliminated as a result of human activities, that would be symbolic. "
The decision was taken after two hours of remote voting on the basis of a shortlist of ten candidates proposed at 24,000. In fact, for the first time in Olympic history at the end of the evening, it was decided to use all three puppets for a podium for three.
As for the Paralympic Games, instead, you chose a pair of mascots made ​​by a ray of sun and a snowflake.
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