Vučko (mascot)
Vučko (Serbo-Croatian, Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Вучко) is the Olympic mascot of the 1984 Winter Olympics, 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. It was created by the Slovenian painter :bs:Jože_Trobec, 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 W ...
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