His designer had just one night to prepare a plan for submission. The official mascot for the second Winter Olympics was a snowman that wore a Tyrolean hat from the Innsbruck region of Austria. Lake ...

For the first time in Olympic history, there were three Olympic mascots: a duck-billed platypus (Syd for Sydney), a kookaburra (Olly for Olympics) and an echidna or spiny anteater (Millie for the ...

But the best part is when the mascot appears as a life-size character! They like to show up and dance to get the fans all hyped up. The Olympics didn't have an official mascot until 1972.