As promised here are some crappy Olympic mascots of yesteryear to celebrate the run up to the 2006 winter games.

Today will focus on the remained mascots from year which boasted both a winter an a summer Olympiad.

1980: Lake Placid and Moscow

Lake Placid gave as “Roni” the raccoon who was designed to help the athletes in the winter games to remember to wear their goggles at the winter games, God I bet that was useful because if your sport needs goggles how on earth could you get to Olympic level without realising! Moscow gave us “Misha” the bear pictured here with the WCW Television Championship belt which he stole from those decadent capitalists in the west.

1984: Sarajevo and Los Angeles

Sarajevo chose “Vuckko” the friendly wolf, who was 90% lamer than Casper the friendly ghost. Los Angeles was defended by “Sam” who succeeded in scaring “Misha” away from the games.

1988: Calgary and Seoul

“Howdy and Hidy” were the completely logical chose for the Calgary winter games as Calgary hhas neither any polar bears or cowboys. Seoul’s mascot “Hodori” now works at the Haven holiday camps.

1992: Albertville and Barcelona

“Magique” the half-man half-star 100 percent crapy fez wearing freak was the mascot of the Albertville games. Contra to popular belief the mascot of the Barcelona games was not Freddie Mercury but in fact “Cobi”