Sochi chooses 3 mascots for 2014 Olympics

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In this photo provided by the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, a polar bear, one of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics mascots is seen. At the end of a two-hour national television broadcast to choose the mascots for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, organizing committee head Dmitry Chernyshenko announced that not one but three cartoon competitors would be the faces of the games - a rad, snowboarding snow leopard, a squeaky-voiced figure-skating bunny rabbit and an earnest, slightly dorky polar bear.

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In this photo provided by the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011 a bunny rabbit, one of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics mascots is seen. At the end of a two-hour national television broadcast to choose the mascots for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, organizing committee head Dmitry Chernyshenko announced that not one but three cartoon competitors would be the faces of the games - a rad, snowboarding snow leopard, a squeaky-voiced figure-skating bunny rabbit and an earnest, slightly dorky polar bear.

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In this photo provided by the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011 a snow leopard, one of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics mascots is seen. At the end of a two-hour national television broadcast to choose the mascots for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, organizing committee head Dmitry Chernyshenko announced that not one but three cartoon competitors would be the faces of the games - a rad, snowboarding snow leopard, a squeaky-voiced figure-skating bunny rabbit and an earnest, slightly dorky polar bear

(Reuters)