Parabbit
Parabbit the official was mascot of the 1998 Winter Paralympics in Japanese Nagano .
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Parabbit is a white rabbit . It has a red and a green ear and is dressed in a blue sports suit. The three colors correspond to the colors of the logo of the International Paralympic Committee at that time . Parabbit is equipped with skis and a ski pole. The name of the mascot is made up of the syllables para and rabbit , while para refers to the Paralympic Games ( Paraplegic , English for paralyzed or Para , Greek for next to ); rabbit is the English word for rabbit.
Emergence
The motif of the rabbit as the mascot of the games was chosen because the existing logo of the Winter Paralympics 1998 had the abstract shape of a rabbit's head and the colors of the IPC logo; the official mascot should complete this logo and thus the external image of the event. In order to find a name for the mascot, the organizing committee of the games called a nationwide ideas competition among schoolchildren and students. In total, over 10,000 people took part in this call, and they submitted 3408 different name suggestions. The committee finally chose “Parabbit” as the official name of the mascot of the Paralympic Games.
reception
Parabbit, like the general public relations work of the Organizing Committee of the Paralympic Games, was considered very successful and was favorably received by the public. It was used at various events before and during the Games to get the population enthusiastic and motivated about the Games, and various Olympic souvenirs such as pins and plush toys with the motif of the mascot were offered. In some media, the mascot Parabbit, like the Snowlets , the four mascots of the 1998 Winter Olympics , was and is given rather ironic or even slightly derogatory comments due to its name .
Web links
- Nagano 1998 Paralympic Winter Games - Parabbit on the official website of the International Paralympic Committee
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Steve Bailey: Athlete First: A History of the Paralympic Movement . John Wiley & Sons, Chichester 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-05824-4 , pp. 200 ff .
- ↑ Paralympics Nagano 1998. International Paralympic Committee, accessed November 10, 2016 .
- ^ Winter Paralympic Games Mascots (1976-2010). paralympicanorak, January 20, 2014, accessed November 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Erin Valois: Gallery: The worst of Olympic mascots through the ages. National Post, May 20, 2010, accessed November 10, 2016 .