Wenlock and Mandeville

Wenlock and Mandeville

Now that the London Olympic Games are soon ending, have you been aware that there are official mascots? They are figures depicting two drops of steel left over from the making of the last support girder of the Olympic stadium in Bolton. Wenlock is named after Much Wenlock in Shropshire, the town originating the Wenlock Olympian Games, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games. Mandeville, on the other hand, is the London Paralympic Games' mascot, named after the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the institution that organized the Stoke Mandeville Games in 1948, a competition for injured soldiers. 

The animation below tells the story of their origins.