Well, it's official. There are five mascots for the Sochi Winter Olympics; the Hare, Polar Bear and Leopard will represent the Winter Olympics proper, while the Ray of Light and Snowflake will be representing the Paralympic Winter Games.
A blog over at the Village Voice stacks up the mascots against some other iterations from Games past, giving proper due to Vucko, the ski-toting wolf who represented the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo.
As for what I think, well, it could have been a whole lot worse. At least these things are actual, well, animals, and not creepy made-up non-animals. Some of my least favorite: Izzy, the blue, um, thing at the 1996 Atlanta Games and the utterly terrifying Hidy and Howdy, two bears who represented the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary and look like they want to invite you into their cave to murder you. Reminds me of "Bear City." Anyone? Just me again, huh?
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