After the unveiling of the bright yellow and cat-like mascot, with a green leaf-haired brother, last month, a three-week long popular vote process has been underway across Brazil, with 323,327 votes ...

Lula said that the process of choosing the mascots - for which there is now a public competition to choose a name following their official unveiling on Monday (November 26) - had taken two years, with ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Bright yellow and cat-like, with a green leaf-haired brother, the mascots for the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro were launched by organisers late on Sunday.

Mascots from recent and past Olympic Games arrived in Rio Thursday to be on hand for a big event involving the Rio Games in 2016.