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Several Sochi 2014 Ambassadors, mostly famous Russian athletes and celebrities, have proposed their ideas for the Sochi 2014 mascot to inspire people across Russia to enter the recently launched mascot competition for the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

NHL legend Alexander Ovechkin, top model Natalia Vodyanova, Olympic medallists Oksana Domnina, Maksim Shabalin and Albert Demchenko, Paralympic champion Olesya Vladykina, popular singer Diana Gurtskaya and Sochi native Olympic medallist Alexey Voevoda have all begun working on their own entries.

Schools across Russia held lesson on Olympic and Paralympic values and the history of Olympic Mascots. This is to signal the beginning of the Sochi 2014 Mascot competition.

Students across the country were given the chance to design the mascots during lessons for the coming Winter Games in Sochi as part of the competition. They were also taught about the mascots which were the symbols of the previous Winter Games in Vancouver, Turin and Salt Lake City.