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When the candidates were introduced to the nation in early February,
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In a they symbolize the Sochi Games' unusual setting, where the ice sports will be held along the subtropical coastline of the Black Sea,
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The unusual decision to have three mascots was announced by Sochi organizing committee head Dmitry Chernyshenko on Saturday at the end of a nationally televised gala to choose them.
MOSCOW - Sochi's mascots for the 2014 Winter Olympics are a rad snowboarding snow leopard, a squeaky-voiced figure skating bunny and an earnest, slightly dorky polar bear.
Viewers could vote from among nine candidates by phone calls and text messages. More than 1 million votes were cast, according to the program.
The mascots appear likely to work well as a team. They encapsulate much of Russia's ambitious self-image.
The top vote recipient of the troika was the leopard; perhaps not coincidentally, he was also the favorite of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who when president pushed for the games with such vigor that the bid overcame concerns about the necessity to build all of the venues from scratch, about Russia's poor infrastructure,
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The Polar Bear,
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