Meet Tom, the Paralympic mascot of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Tom is a unique mixture of the Brazilian flora, representing the diversity of the nature, culture and the people of Brazil. He is able ...

Vinicius, the mascot of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games poses at the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 5, 2015. Getty Images The mascot for the Olympic Games is almost always strange-looking, and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — In Rio de Janeiro, two rescue dogs have turned local mascots and budding online influencers after joining their rescuers’ ranks, wooing their growing audience, one bark at a time.

The Rio Olympics mascot pays tribute to a famous Brazilian. Rio introduced Vinicius to the world on Nov. 23, 2014, the winner of a nationwide contest announced in November 2012.

Past Olympic Mascots Meet, Put on Show Before Reveal of Rio 2016 Mascot Published: Nov. 21, 2014, 7:24 a.m. Mascots from recent and past Olympic Games arrived in Rio Thursday to be on hand for a ...

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.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – A bright yellow cat-like figure, which also combines elements of monkeys and birds, is the mascot of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The smiley-faced mascot represents ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – As fans begin flocking to Rio for the 2016 Summer Olympics (assuming they aren’t scared off by the insect plague crime-wave apocalypse that’s allegedly happening here), they ...