They emerge from the eyes of Gordon Brown, the former prime minister of Britain. They have been turned into Queen Victoria. Wenlock and Mandeville, which purportedly represent drops of steel from a girder of Olympic Stadium, entered the modern-day wilds of photo-editing software and a flourishing culture of online snark. In contrast, consider what has happened to Wenlock and Mandeville, the Cyclopean mascots for this summer’s London Olympics. However strange, those mascots were released in simpler times. All manner of misshapen and barely identifiable creatures have followed, from Waldi the multicolored dachshund (Munich, 1972) to Magique the star-shaped snow imp (Albertville, France, 1992) to Izzy the computer-generated. ![]() ![]() The 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France, opened the floodgates for Olympic mascots by giving the world Schuss, a cartoon character that became known as the Skiing Sperm.
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