The 20th Winter Olympics is just over 3 weeks away and will this year be held in Turin.
Now the official position of “The Dubious Chymist” is that due to England’s vastly in creased chance of winning medals that the greatest international sporting event is the Commonwealth games, but let’s put that aside for one moment. If you ask me the greatest part of the Olympic movement is to try to guess which crappy mascot the host city has chosen this year. Since the seventies each city (whether it be summer or winter host) has chosen a mascot that has nothing at all to do with that city or sport, and building up to the games I will be mocking my favourites.
First it the turn of Turin 2006:
Neve (red) is a snow ball and Gliz (blue) is an ice cube. They seem blissfully unaware that they are going to spend the next three weeks being skied over, skated on, and Bobsledded down, that should wipe the smile off their smug faces!
