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	Podcast:		Witness
	Episode:		The first Olympic ‘mascot’
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:09:53
	Publish Date:		2024-07-23 09:00:00
	Description:		After being designed in one night, Shuss, the cartoon skier, debuted at the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France. Instead of ‘mascot’, the Olympic Organising Committee referred to it as a ‘character’ at the time. In the colours of the French flag, Shuss was available as a variety of souvenirs. Megan Jones speaks to one manufacturer of Shuss merchandise, André Thiennot. (Picture: Shuss souvenir. Credit: BBC)
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