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Muppetmagazine24

Muppet Magazine issue #24

Gym

Julianne McNamara and the Muppets.

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Animal, official mascot of the 1998 U.S. Snowboarding Team.

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Kermit jogging at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

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Elmo, Abby and Grover show off their Olympic pride in a Today Show appearance, August 9, 2012.

The Olympic Games, or Olympics, are an international multi-sport event taking place every four years and comprising summer and winter games. Originally held in ancient Greece, they were revived by a French nobleman, Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin in the late 19th century. The Summer Olympics have been held every fourth year since 1896, except in 1916, 1940, and 1944 due to the World Wars. A special edition for winter sports, the Olympic Winter Games, was first held in 1924. The first winter Olympics competitions were originally held as a non-Olympic sports festival, but were declared to be official Games by the International Olympic Committee in 1925. Originally these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but since 1994 the Winter Games and the Summer Games have been held two years apart.

Animal was the mascot of the U.S. Snowboarding Team for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. This was the first year that snowboarding was recognized by the Olympics, and the team adopted Animal as their mascot. The drummer also made a television appearance in Nagano with CBS reporter Kennedy, who stapled his feet to a snowboard.

Appearances

Vancouver 2010

The Coca-Cola Polar Bear made appearances at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

London 2012

Elmo Should Go to the Olympics (also called ElmOlympian) was an official social media campaign by Sesame Workshop, launched on June 4, 2012, following Elmo from Sesame Street as he prepares for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England. On June 7, 2012, Elmo appeared on Today to promote his cause; NBC is the London Olympics broadcaster in the United States.

Two new videos were released July 23, the first announcing that Elmo would be joined by Abby and Grover at the Olympics, and the second with Elmo talking to Sarah Hughes. As of the second set of videos, the Facebook campaign page had been taken down, and text references to the Olympics were scrubbed from new videos.

Boxer Marcus Brown was featured in a third video. A USA Boxing representative said the segment was filmed in New York in mid-June, shortly after the USA Olympic boxing team was formally announced. Brown was recommended to producers, who were looking for New York-based Olympians.[1]

Tim Morehouse and Daryl Homer, two American fencers, discuss teamwork in another video. Morehouse met up with Elmo, Grover, and Abby at the Olympics itself, August 11, tweeting pictures of the encounter.

During their stay in London, Elmo, Abby and Grover appeared on Today (August 9), Milkshake! (August 10), and Rove Live (August 11).

References

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The Worm Winter Games

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The Ojo-lympics

*In 1995, Sesame Street spoofed the Olympics in Episode 3300, in which Slimey, Oscar the Grouch's pet worm, competed in the Worm Summer Games. The material was later reused in the video Slimey's World Games.

  • Sesame Street also spoofed the Winter Olympics in episode 3061 with the Worm Winter Games, which were held in Squggleville, France.
  • In 1992, Good Morning America featured many Muppet skits. In one skit, "The Muppet Games", Lewis Kazagger reported on the Geek Winter Games (a much cheaper alternative to the Winter Olympics), where founding geek Gonzo demonstrates demolition speed skating.
  • In January of 2006, Kermit the Frog visited the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany, built for the 1936 Summer Olympics, to promote his Adidas Adicolor line of sports apparel. He took a brief, bare-flippered jog on the freezing cold track.

Connections

Mitch

Mitch Gaylord and Kermit.

Sources

  1. Stephen Hart, "Staten Island's Marcus Browne meets Elmo from 'Sesame Street'", Staten Island Advance, August 3, 2012.
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