Olympic Mascots Wenlock and Mandeville pose at Heathrow Airport as athletes arrive in London on July 23, 2012, four days ahead of the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. - WILL ...

More than 60 statues of Wenlock and Mandeville are scattered throughout London, and judging from reaction on the streets, there’s confusion as to what the mascots are, let alone what they are ...

The one-eyed cyclopses Wenlock and Mandeville (purportedly representative of molten steel droplets) chosen as the mascots of the 2012 London Olympics were almost universally panned and shunned.

Mandeville is named after the hospital Stoke Mandeville where games were set up for patients in the spinal ward. These games were a forerunner of the Paralympics, which Mandeville is the mascot for.

Mandeville's head is shaped like a bicycle racing helmet. Each mascot has a single eye in the middle of its face representing a camera lens that will capture their experiences on the way to 2012.

London Olympic organisers presented 'Pride' the Lion on Monday as a new mascot to join one-eyed Mandeville and Wenlock as merchandising moneyspinners for next year's Games. With a nod to World Cup ...

The official mascots of London’s Olympic and Paralympic Games — Wenlock and Mandeville — have been called all of those things, but organizers are hoping to tack on a more positive title ...