Journalism of Courage
Over the years, the mascots for the Winter Olympics have been abstract forms, animals and humans. Bing Dwen Dwen, the cheerful panda, is the official mascot for the 2022 Beijing Olympics, but there were plenty before.
Inflated Beijing Games mascot, Bing Dwen Dwen, tries to squeeze through the door to enter the main media center at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A woman poses for a photo with a statue of the Winter Olympics mascot Bing Dwen Dwen in Beijing, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
The mascots for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, from left, Miga, Quatchi and Sumi pose for photographers following their debut to students in Surrey, British Columbia. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)
A snowman, mascot of the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, greets children in Kitzbuhel, Austria, during the world downhill ski events. (AP Photo)
Vucko the wolf, the symbol for the XIV winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo's Yugoslavia, dances with Howdy the bear who will be the symbol for the next Winter Games, to be held on Calgary, Alberta, at the closing ceremonies for the games in Sarajevo. (AP Photo)
Robotic mascots perform during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Children attending the short track skating races in the Palavela Arena cheer with Torino Olympic mascots Neve, left and Gliz at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
Supporters of the Austrian ski team make music with Powder one of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games mascots as they wait for the start of the weather delayed women's downhill in Snowbasin, Utah, Feb, 2002. (AP Photo/Rudi Blaha)
Snowlets, the Olympic mascots, walk around the stadium prior to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics at Minami Nagano Sports Park in Nagano, Japan in Feb 1998. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
The wooden mascots of the Winter Olympics watch over one of the main shopping streets in Feb 1994, in Lillehammer, Norway. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Allison McAbe is framed by all kinds of souvenirs in a Calgary, Alberta, shop, Feb 1988. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz)
Amela Dizdar, 3, poses with a replica of the Winter Olympics mascot named Vucko in Sarajevo in 1984. The mascot was the creation of Joze Trobec, an academic painter from Kranj in Slovenia. (AP Photo/Bob Dear)
Snowmen, mascots of the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, appear in Kitzbühel, Austria during World Cup downhill skiing events. (AP Photo)
A child wears one of the Olympic mascots on his face when watching the women's 1,500-meter speedskating race at the Gangneung Oval at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Olympic mascots and a young girl participate in the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
