Vučko (
Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Вучко) is the
Olympic mascot
The Olympic mascots are fictional characters, usually an animal native to the area or human figures, who represent the cultural heritage of the place where the Olympic and Paralympic Games are taking place. The mascots are often used to help ...
of the
1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. It was created by the
Slovenian painter
Jože Trobec. The mascot is a wolf, many of which live in the
Dinaric Alps, where Sarajevo is located.
Through his smiling, frightened or serious facial expressions, Vučko gave the wolf a friendly appearance, helping to transform the often fierce image which the animal previously enjoyed.
The mascot was chosen through a contest entered by 836 participants. After an initial selection, six projects were chosen. The other proposals were a snowball, a mountain goat, a weasel, a lamb and a hedgehog.
Readers of various newspapers and magazines could later vote for the final mascot.
[Olympic Winter Games Mascots from Innsbruck 1976 to Sochi 2014]
Olympic.org In the final poll, Vučko received more votes than all the other candidate mascots combined.
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1984 Winter Olympics
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