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I’m Mandeville!

I’m Wenlock!

We are the official mascots
of the London Olympics.
They have only one eye.

On 27th July, 10,000 athletes from over
200 countries will come to London for the
world’s biggest sport event: the Olympics.
From 19 May to 27 July, the Olympic
Torch will travel 12,800 km around the
United Kingdom.
8,000 people will carry the torch. They will
run, but they will also use horses, balloons
and canoes.

Both mascots have a camera which let them record
everything.
Mandeville was created from the last drops of steel left
over from the girders made for the Olympic Stadium.
Mandeville’s name comes from Stoke Mandeville Hospital in
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, which held The Stoke
Mandeville Games, the inspiration for the Paralympics.
Mandeville wears a pink stopwatch on his wrist. His helmet
is like a head with three points coloured blue, red and green
that represents the agitos, The Paralympic symbol.
The name Wenlock is inspired by Much Wenlock, a small
town in Shropshire, England, where the Wenlock Olympian
Society held its firs Olympian Games in 1850. He has five

friendship bracelets on his wrist. Each bracelet takes the
colour of an Olympic ring. The three points on his head
represent the three places on the podium. The pattern on
his body with the logo of the games symbolizes the whole
world coming to London in 2012.

Paralympic mascots

The

Olympic

East London.

Stadium

in

The area

Stratford,
around

stadium has been completely rebuilt.

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