3-858: Sam the Olympic Eagle was the mascot of the 1984 Summer Olympics which were held in Los Angeles . He is a bald eagle , the national bird of the host nation, the United States . The United States originally intended to use a bear mascot to represent California , but the Soviet Union had used a bear mascot named Misha at the preceding 1980 Summer Olympics . The mascot was designed by Bob Moore, an artist working for The Walt Disney Company . Sam would go on to feature in McDonald's merchandise, as an attraction at Disneyland , and as
6-674: The first Olympic mascots was created for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble ; a stylized cartoon character on skis named Schuss . The first official Olympic mascot appeared in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , and was a rainbow -colored Dachshund dog named Waldi . Since the Games in Vancouver in 2010 , the Olympic and Paralympic mascots have always been presented together, which
9-487: The protagonist of a Japanese anime series titled Eagle Sam . This article about a sports, promotional, or other mascot is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Olympic mascot The Olympic mascots are fictional characters who represent the cultural heritage of the location where the Olympic Games are taking place. They are often an animal native to the area or human figures. One of
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