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Sochi’s mascots for the 2014 Winter Olympics are a rad snowboarding snow leopard, a squeaky-voiced figure skating bunny and an earnest, slightly dorky polar bear. The unusual decision to have three mascots was announced by Sochi organizing committee head Dmitry Chernyshenko on Saturday in Moscow at the end of a nationally televised gala to choose them. Viewers could vote from among nine candidates by phone and text messages. More than 1 million votes were cast. The top vote recipient was the leopard; perhaps not coincidentally, he was the favorite of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
