Meet Tom, the Paralympic mascot of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games ... a Brazilian bossa nova song that has reached worldwide fame. The Olympic counterpart to Tom is also named after a musician, the ...

Rio's Summer Olympics mascot, Vinicius, was as colorful as the city he represented. A mix of Brazilian animals from real life and animation, he was designed by professionals at Birdo Produções ...

The mascot is described as encompassing "Rio's landscape, Brazilian spirit and Olympic values like the torch, gold and championship." A public vote will determine which of three names will be ...

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 ...

An example of this in the Olympics is 'Vinicius' the 2016 mascot for Rio which was a merge of different Brazilian animals to represent the diversity of Brazilian culture and it's people.

Editor’s note: Follow Olympics opening ceremony live updates. Mascots are synonymous with sports, and the Olympics, worldwide event that they are, prove no different, Indeed, they have a rich ...

(Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) The men’s and women’s race walking events continued at the Rio Olympics on Friday and so did the Internet’s snark about the sport. But it wasn’t always such ...

Maracanã Stadium, which held the opening and closing ceremonies and several of the Rio Olympics' biggest events, is abandoned and plagued by looters, and Julio de Lamare Aquatic Park's warm-up ...

Brazilian police patrol a Rio Olympics bus stop on Copacabana Boulevard which transports athletes and media to the beach volleyball. (Barbara Walton/European PressPhoto Agency) These were just the ...