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    The mascots for the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics were Wenlock and Mandeville, two drops of steel named after locations significant to the origins of the modern games. Wenlock was inspired by the town of Much Wenlock, site of an early Olympian Games. Mandeville took his name from Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where the precursor to the Paralympics began. Their designs symbolized friendship, world unity, and the spirit of the games.

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    The mascots for the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics were Wenlock and Mandeville, two drops of steel named after locations significant to the origins of the modern games. Wenlock was inspired by the town of Much Wenlock, site of an early Olympian Games. Mandeville took his name from Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where the precursor to the Paralympics began. Their designs symbolized friendship, world unity, and the spirit of the games.

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    The mascots for the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics were Wenlock and Mandeville, two drops of steel named after locations significant to the origins of the modern games. Wenlock was inspired by the town of Much Wenlock, site of an early Olympian Games. Mandeville took his name from Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where the precursor to the Paralympics began. Their designs symbolized friendship, world unity, and the spirit of the games.

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    The mascots for the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics were Wenlock and Mandeville, two drops of steel named after locations significant to the origins of the modern games. Wenlock was inspired by the town of Much Wenlock, site of an early Olympian Games. Mandeville took his name from Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where the precursor to the Paralympics began. Their designs symbolized friendship, world unity, and the spirit of the games.

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    LONDONS 2012 MASCOTS

    The mascots were unveiled on 19 May 2010; this marks the second time (that both Olympic and Paralympic mascots were unveiled at the same time. The mascots were created and designed by iris, a London-based creative agency. Wenlock and Mandeville are animations depicting two drops of steel from a steelworks in Bolton. They are named after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, which held a forerunner of the current Olympic Games, and Stoke Mandeville Hospital, a facility in Buckinghamshire that initially organised the Stoke Mandeville Games, the precursor of the Paralympic Games.

    Wenlock Wenlocks name is inspired by Much Wenlock in Shropshire, England, where the Wenlock Olympian Society held its first Olympian Games in 1850, regarded as an inspiration for the modern Olympic games. He has five friendship bracelets on his wrist. Each bracelet takes the colour of an Olympic ring. The three points on his head represent the three places on the podium. The pattern on his body with the logo of the games symbolises the whole

    world coming to London in 2012. The shape on the front of his head represents the shape of the Olympic stadium roof. In the run-up to the games Wenlock hopes to make as many friends as possible and always looks on the bright side of life.

    Mandeville Mandevilles name comes from Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England

    which held The Stoke Mandeville Games, the inspiration for the Paralympics. Mandeville wears a pink stopwatch on his wrist which on models

    reads 0:20:12. His helmetlike head with three points coloured blue, red and green represents the agitos, the Paralympic Symbol.

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