OLYMPIC
MASCOTS NAMED
 The
2002 Winter Olympic Games will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
This past week, the new mascots for these 2002 Winter Olympics
were named. The mascots are a rabbit named Powder, a coyote named
Copper, and a bear named Coal.
After
the Salt Lake Olympic Committee chose the animals as mascots they
had to come up with names. They took ideas for the names from
42,000 Utah schoolchildren. Once the names were narrowed down
to just a few choices for each animal, the Salt Lake Olympic Committee
opened them up to a vote from the nation.
Toymaker
Mattel, Inc. will be making the stuffed mascots, which will go
on sale this upcoming holiday season in Utah.
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