watson reports the competition is intense. and olympic race but no medals up for grabs it's the search for a mascot and these children while the snow little part to be the symbol which sums up the world they were allowed to decorate the statue in one of the city's parks to show their support for a species under threat but he is a strong as animal is a wall they want this animal to go this is because it's a very special animal the only force from the earlier parts living in forty's wildlife reserve but drawings of these animals have appeared in dozens of entries in the national contest to find the mascot for the two thousand and fourteen winter games in southern russia the election of the olympic mascot started with hundreds of ideas and you can see some of these drawings here in sochi olympic information center eventually it really came down to the stop turn rate here these are the methods that made it into the finals and one of the entries are two beers it's normally a board for the frost and the mayor of sochi is personal fa