1976 Summer Olympics: Amik. Amik, a beaver, was chosen after a national competition in Canada ahead of the Montreal Games. Courtesy Olympics.com. 1980 Winter Olympics: Roni. Lake Placid school ...

List of the Olympics Mascots Year-on-Year. The first ever Olympic mascot was "Smoky" from the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and then the idea of a mascot was reused 36 years later, in 1968 ...

The 1972 Munich Games featured Waldi, a dachshund. Waldi was the first mascot in the history of the Olympic Summer Games. Since then, there's been Schneemandl the snowman, Amik the beaver, Sam the ...

Summer Olympics fever is real: NBC's TV ratings and streaming stats are both through the roof. Eight of Peacock's 10 most-streamed days of all time have been from these Olympics.