Pets of londres 2012

Wenlock and Mandeville are the official pets of the Olympic and Paralympic Games of London 2012. Designed by the company Iris Design. According to his author, Michael Morpurgo.The names of the pets refer to two British localities of transcendency for the olimpismo. Wenlock's name is based on Much Wenlock's city.Wenlock His name is inspired in Much Wenlock in Shropshire, England, where the Olympic Company Wenlock (Wenlock Olimpyan Society) sheltered the first Olympic Games in 1858, inspiring the modern Olympic Games. Wenlock has 5 bracelets of the friendship in his wrist. Each one is of the color of each one of the Olympic hoops.

London 2012

The Olympic Games XXX are a sports event that is carried out from July 27 until August 12, 2012 in the city of London, Kingdom Unido. The first event, the phase of groups in the tilt of feminine football, it began two days before the inauguration, on July 25 of 2012.To The neighborhood of 10 500 athletes of 204 countries they take part in the Olympic Games of Londres.

The first Olympic games of the history

The current Olympic Games inspired by those of the 8th century to. C organized by the former Greeks in Olimpia's city, between 776 B.C. and 393 A.D. In the 19th century, there arose the idea of realizing a few events similar to the organized ones in the Antiquity,The first edition of the so called Olympic Games of the Modern Age was realized in Athens, the capital of Greece. From that opportunity, the Summer Olympic Games have been realized every four years in diverse parts of the planet,