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The two animals chosen as the mascots of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are stoats, a weasel-like animal that’s at risk because of climate change. But Olympic organizers haven’t been talking about that, at least not so far. (AP video: Brittany Peterson)
For fans of the Milan Cortina Olympic mascots, the eponymous Milo and Tina, it’s been nearly impossible to find a plush toy of the stoat siblings in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. Many of the official Olympics stores in the host cities are already sold out, less than a week into the Winter Games.
Apologies to all otters, ferrets, badgers, ferret-badgers, weasels, fishers, polecats, wolverines, martens, and grisons, but the mustelid of the moment is the stoat. The mascots of the 2026 Winter Olympics are a pair of sibling stoats named Milo (short for Milano) and Tina (short for Cortina). Tina is white, just like stoats in the winter, and Milo is brown, just like stoats in the summer. Milo, the Paralympic mascot, was born without a leg and learned to use his tail as a substitute. Per official Olympics lore, Milo and Tina parted ways as they grew up—Tina moved to the city and Milo stayed in the mountains—but the two reunite each year in the winter in their childhood den. Also per the lore, Milo and Tina are "the first openly Gen Z Mascots," implying the existence of closeted Gen Z mascots—may they one day feel secure enough in their generational identity to come out on the world stage.
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Upon medaling at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, some athletes have been given rather fuzzy keepsakes: stuffed animals.
That was the case when Team Italy clinched bronze in the figure skating team event.
As the team gathered for photos to celebrate their accomplishment, the eye-catching companions at their side quickly captured attention.
The stuffed animals represent Tina and Milo, a pair of stoat siblings who are the respective mascots of the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
"Like young people, they have an active and proactive character, an ingenious and inventive attitude, a vital and resilient spirit," organizers said in a press release, in part. "Our stoats are two cheerful and easy-going teenagers, energetic, determined and strong-willed, sometimes charmingly irreverent towards adults and eager to assert their role as protagonists in the world to come."
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