Olympic Mascots revealed

[Sportsdude]

Quatchi is a young sasquatch with a long brown beard and blue earmuffs, while Miga is a snowboarding sea-bear — part killer whale and part kermode bear.[/p] And Sumi is a spirit animal that flies with the wings of a native thunderbird.[/p] There's even a sidekick: Mukmuk, a small friendly Vancouver Island Marmot.[/p]
[/p]Sumi - [a href="vny!://mash.zincroe.com/mascot/en/profile_s.php"]vny!://mash.zincroe.com/mascot/en/profile_s.php[/a]
Miga - [a href="vny!://mash.zincroe.com/mascot/en/profile_m.php"]vny!://mash.zincroe.com/mascot/en/profile_m.php[/a]
Quatchi - [a href="vny!://mash.zincroe.com/mascot/en/profile_q.php"]vny!://mash.zincroe.com/mascot/en/profile_q.php[/a]

Finland called, they were surprised to learn that they're hosting the olympics too since they're the Soumi nation. (soumi is said sue-mi and sumi is said sue-mi as well) lol

a sasquatch?

[Sportsdude]

It's funny that they use the Vancouver Island Marmot as a mascot considering its an endangered species on Vancouver Island due to constant clear cutting and forest deforestation to make phone books and newspapers... Maybe this will push the feds to have an Endangered Species Act for once, but that's probably wishful thinking.  

[stretchedout]

They should have included far better known characters for the mascots:

 

[P.C.]

OMG !!!!!   Is that Rudolph on the spit ?   [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/n035.gif" border=0]

  I think I agree.....at least they would be recognizable.

[Lil Me]

The mascots are quite cute and lovable.
 
 I was fully expecting Expo Ernie in an HBC Olympics sweatshirt.
   

[Russ]

I dunno. I think they look like those teletubbies, which i think are stupid anyhow.

  But if the kiddies like em I guess thats the plan?

[Sportsdude]

yahoo canada has a title right now that says "vancouver mascots: modern pokemon?"  

[P.C.]

THAT'S the name I was trying to think of.  Pokemons.....that's what they look like.

[Sportsdude]

And talk about regionalism here for a moment, the games are in the country of Canada not the country of British Columbia. This really is just a week exercise in tourism ads for BC.

The best mascots I can remember was '94 Lilihammer, two norweign children dressed in traditional clothing and since mascots are for kids mainly, I could relate to that more then pokemon looking characters.

Haakon and Kristin were the first human-like mascots  for the Olympic Games. The names are children from Norwegian folklore.



 

[Sportsdude]

But then again its really about the games, like Dan Jansen finally winning who is still to this day my parents favourite athlete ever. After he finally beat the greatest speed skater in the history of the sport, CBS did a movie about his life.

Then after that Forsberg's goal in the gold medaal game against Canada.
Still amazes me.

[a href="vny!://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTtFmPZpoAI"]vny!://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTtFmPZpoAI[/a]
 

[P.C.]

This is my submission for the mascot.  Give the little guy an umbrella and some little boots....done.

 

[JJ]

How about these:

               

[P.C.]

rofl....a much better selection JJ.

[Michel]

   
 

[stretchedout]

well of course they are happy - they are a gay homeless couple!