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The Olympics' 15 Most Terrifying Mascots Ever Created

All Olympic mascots are weird and creepy. All of them. Here are some of the all-time most nonsensical mascots from the Olympics.As the 2012 Olympic Games in London has reminded us time and again, every Olympiad is amazing and awesome, full of unbelievable moments of triumph and defeat. But as the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics also reminded us, the Olympics is always full of a lot of stuff that is super, super weird.One of the weirdest things about the Olympics, year in and year out, is the IOC's (or whoever's) insistence on having an Olympic mascot. A cute, cuddly something-or-other that you can put on T-shirts or make into stuffed animals or something with which to generally terrify children. The problem is that very few of these Olympic mascots have been cute or cuddly. Usually, they end up being some poor sap in a dead-eyed fursuit that makes everyone vaguely uncomfortable.Join us as we revisit 15 of the most bizarre, nonsensical or otherwise horrifying mascots of the Summer...

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