2016年里约奥运会吉祥物亮相 本周将公选名字

里约奥组委昨日公布了2016年里约奥运会吉祥物（左）和残奥会吉祥物（右），两个吉祥物分别代表了巴西的动物和植物，体现出桑巴国度的热情与奔放。目前，这两个吉祥物的名字还没有最终确定。

Olympic mascots tend to be goofy, garish and quizzically odd.

So no one should be surprised by the multicolored talismans unveiled by the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

The yet-to-be-named figures that will represent the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games drew their inspiration from disparate sources that included video games and Brazil's fauna and flora, officials said.

One of the mascots can best be described as bright yellow and feline. The other looks like a blue tree with hands.

“The Rio 2016 mascots represent the diversity of our culture, of our people,” said Beth Lula, an organizing committee executive. “They represent our joy, our way of being."

The public will get the chance to choose their names through an online poll that opened this week.