The author of Mishka at the Olympics-80 criticizes the symbols of games in Sochi: "I don't like it when they steal"

The creator of the symbol of the 1980 Moscow Olympiad, artist Viktor Chizhikov negatively spoke about the drawing of a white bear selected as one of the talismans of the Winter Olympiad in Sochi 2014.

“This white bear, which was chosen, in it, everything all -seated with my: eyes, nose, mouth, smile, although everything is distorted,” Chizhikov said on the air of the Radio Echo of Moscow .

“I don’t like it when they steal - the author is especially acutely feeling,” Chizhikov added.

He added that he considers all the proposed options the symbol of the Olympics unprofessional. “Not any talisman has a serious attitude to the task,” Chizhikov said.

Residents of Russia during the telephone and SMS voting as part of the Talismania. Sochi-2014 project. Final "On the live air of Channel One chose a white bear, a hare and a leopard as talismans of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi 2014.

“The organizing committee decides that we will have three official talisman of games. All three, please, won,” said Dmitry Chernyshenko, president of the Sochi -2014 organizing committee, after the three leaders were announced following the results of the audience.

The leopard - 28%, the White Bear preferred 18%of the voted, the bunny cast their votes in 16%most of all votes of viewers. Earlier on the air of Channel One, talismans of the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games were chosen. They were a ray and a snowflake.