Vučko (

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: Вучко) is the

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of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. It was created by the

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n painter Jože Trobec. The mascot is a wolf, many of which live in the

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, 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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