How did mandeville and wenlock mascots get their names?

Answer 1

Mandeville and Wenlock, the mascots for the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics, were named after the locations of the first modern Olympic Games and the origins of the Paralympic Games. Mandeville is named after the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, where the first wheelchair games were held in 1948. Wenlock, on the other hand, takes its name from Much Wenlock, a town in Shropshire that hosted the Wenlock Olympian Games in the 19th century, which inspired the modern Olympics. The mascots were designed to embody the spirit and history of these events.