Izzy had huge feet. We produced a pretty significant animation at our expense—hundreds of thousands of dollars—for a half-hour special.
Basically they just did us a favor. Evans helped create a mascot program that recruited volunteers through auditions. Smith : By the time the Olympics came around, we had upwards of 20 Izzys that could be in different places at one time.
Kira Wilsterman , a Decatur teacher who became an Izzy volunteer : Izzy came to our school to get the kids pumped up. There were hundreds of us. Evans : We worked with performers to [standardize] the mannerisms. We wanted to make sure all performers presented the same character. Let children approach you versus approaching them.
Adam Jay , then a high school student who volunteered to be Izzy : We were given a sheet about who Izzy was. You had to know the sponsors: He could hang out with Coca-Cola products but not hang out with Pepsi products. Wilsterman : We had to put on the gloves and the feet. After that they had us put on the costume for the full-fledged audition. It was big and heavy and very hot. Jay : You entered through the top of his mouth. You needed two people to take off the costume because his eyes snap to his body.
Smith : A lot of children thought it would be fun to swing on the tail. When that happened, the costume sat on your shoulders, and you could throw your back out. Evans : The lighting bolt eyebrows and rings on the tail were prime targets for being pulled, punched, or ripped off for a souvenir. Smith : Handlers began watching the perimeter. Izzy could only see a certain distance.
On the night of July 19, , 83, people headed to Summerhill for the opening ceremony at what would eventually become Turner Field. Izzy was out of sight. Is he still waiting for a shuttle bus? Was he held hostage by Gumby? Smith : We took over one of the Olympic headquarters offices.
We had calendars on the wall that showed where each Izzy would be every day. You would check in, get your costume, and go out. Wilsterman: Sometimes it was on the field or in the venue. Other times it would be outside as a crowd-pleaser. Jay : We were instructed to wear the Izzy costume 30 minutes on, 30 minutes off, because you would sweat.
We were lucky if one even worked. Jay : I remember having a headset so if I needed to get out of the costume. There was always a person there [helping] Izzy if he had to sit down or got dizzy or overheated. Jay : We did have to scale back appearances dramatically once the bomb happened.
It was a safety issue. Rooney : We did an exhibition on the first anniversary of the Games. The question came up: Can someone dress up in the Izzy costume to greet visitors in the Atlanta History Center? We were told Olympic mascots do not live on after their time.
Smith : I still have one of the Izzy costumes. The rest of the costumes went into a black hole somewhere. No one is supposed to have one—except for me. But we sold a lot of merchandise, held a privately funded Games; we actually made money, which we gave back to the community. So I guess it did okay. Watkins : It was not a mistake.
Did we create issues for ourselves by not getting the first costume right? We got it right later on. I never lost my enthusiasm for Izzy.
If you questioned it, all you had to do was look at Izzy next to a child. They loved it. You felt it. Smith : We were able to be goodwill ambassadors for the Olympics.
Was it the greatest experience of my life? I would say it was the most unique experience of my life. Evans : I do appreciate the originality and willingness to do something different. I do think it was a missed opportunity to do something more representative of Atlanta.
Land : Atlanta tries so hard to be what we think the world wants to view us as. Izzy was so squeaky clean and so safe for a soulful and funky metropolis in the down and dirty South. Shuman : Izzy was kind of like Colony Square—a little bit before his time. Campbell : It boggled the mind. It was silly. It was pointless.
It was tacky. It was kitsch. It was cutesy. It was unrelated to the city. Hope : Billy did a lot of things great.
The logo for the Olympics was spectacular. It was bizarre. It was a Smurf. There were things that really did matter. That picture of the coach holding Kerri Strug in his arms, if you saw that image today, it would mean something. An image of Izzy? Shuman : Usually everything Billy touched turned to gold. Seems a good time to revisit it. Izzy is an official mascot of Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
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This mascot, named Schuss, was a small, round-headed skier featuring the colors of the French flag. For promotional purposes, there has been an official Olympic mascot since , usually a native species of the host region, more rarely a human figure who represents the cultural heritage.
He has to be the best dressed Olympic mascot but is he scratching his ear or holding his nose? During the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games Barcelona , the mascot was introduced. For their mascot, the Atlanta organizers were a little bit more abstract and chose an odd creature named Izzy. It features the mascot, Izzy, playing table tennis. Syd, Olly, and Millie were a reference to Sydney, the Olympics, and the new millennium, and respectively symbolized the water, air, and earth. The official logo for the centennial Olympics was revealed on 13 February , and was designed by Michael Collins of Landor Associates.
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Evans helped create a mascot program that recruited volunteers through auditions. The cartoony Miraitowa is the official mascot of the Tokyo Olympics, and it comes with surprising powers the athletes can only envy. The Organizing Committee offered a cash prize to anyone who had the chosen design and, as a result, received more than 4, entries.
After this initial phase, 14 artists were selected for the final and the design chosen was for a tiger wearing a hat typical of South Korean folk musicians with a ribbon in the shape of the letter S from Seoul. The tiger is part of the country's focus because it represents vigor and fighting spirit. The name was chosen from more than 6 thousand options, a mixture of horangi, which means tiger, and dori, short for boy.
Gomdoori is a Korean word derived from "Teddy Bear", While bears are commonly associated with wisdom and courage, the two have their legs tied together, symbolizing the ability to overcome adversity through cooperation and encourage humanity to work together in peace and harmony. They were the mascots of the Seoul Paralympic Games. In the Barcelona Olympic Games, the chosen one was Cobi, a dog with a modern design and a simple name: a reduced form of the Barcelona Organizing Committee and easy to be pronounced in any language.
Made by the same creator of Cobi, Javier Mariscal, Petra is a positive, outgoing, independent, energetic, courageous girl who has no arms.
She was the mascot of the Barcelona Paralympic Games. It cannot be denied that Izzy, the mascot chosen for the Atlanta Olympic Games, had his sympathy there. A Phoenix was chosen as the mascot of the Atlanta Paralympic Games not only as a symbol of renewal, perseverance and determination, but also because of the importance of the Phoenix being the symbol of the city of Atlanta. Designed by Trevor Irvin, the bright colors, great wingspan and height of the Paralympic mascot make it the embodiment of the will and determination of people with a disability to achieve a full life for themselves.
For the first time, there were three mascots in an edition of the Sydney Olympic Games. Made by designer Matthew Harton, who won a contest open to competitors from around the world, they represented native Australian animals. Olly, whose name derives from the Olympics, is a kookaburra bird, Syd, reduced version of Sydney, is a platypus, and Millie, named after the new millennium, was an echidna, a kind of porcupine. Lizzy, the collared caterpillar, was chosen as the mascot of the Sydney Paralympic Games.
The clothing of the Paralympic mascot, colored in green and gold and in the shape of Australia, represents the country, with the ocher body mirroring the color of the earth.
Lizzy's strength, determination and attitude symbolize all Paralympic athletes participating in the Games. The mascots of the Athens Olympic Games were a tribute to Greek mythology, but they were not very charismatic. Athena and Phevos were named after the brothers of Olympus. Athena was the goddess of wisdom and gave the name to the host city of the Olympics. Phevos was the other name for Apollo, god of light and music.
The inspiration for the drawing, made by S. Spyros Gogos, the creator of Proteas, took a deliberate step away from previous Paralympic mascot designs and created what for him best represents the nature of competitions and the athletes' constant goal of achieving excellence. The Beijing Olympic Games had the mark of ostentation and, at times, of exaggeration. The opening ceremony was the most expensive in history and the Olympic torch relay was fired the longest and had the largest number of conductors.
All of this was also reflected in the mascots. They have never been so many: five in all!
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