After much secrecy, the mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver/Whistler have been unveiled. Prior to today’s announcement, there were speculations it could be a moose, the spirit bear, or a marmot. None of those, in fact, turned out to be the mascots (although the spirit bear was pretty close). Plural. For 2010, Vancouver will have 3 official mascots: Quatchi, a sasquatch; Miga, a sea bear (part killer whale, part Kermode bear, or “spirit bear”; and Sumi, part orca whale, part thunderbird, and part black bear. The official 2010 website now has an area up featuring the mascots. There’s also a sidekick mascot, Mukmuk, that exists only in the virtual world.

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