Getty Images Neve, meaning “snow” in Italian, and Gliz, short for “ghiaccio” and meaning “ice,” were the mascots for the 2006 Turin Olympic Games as a snowball and ice cube.

For the 2006 Turin Winter Games, the mascots were Neve, a snowball, and Gliz, an ice cube. But sometimes, mascots can be neither human nor animal nor even object. “Whatizit,” or “Izzy” for ...

Vučko the wolf was chosen through a contest with hundreds of participants. Advertising Neve and Gliz were the mascots for the 2006 Turin Olympics. Neve is a snowball and Gliz an ice cube.

(ATR) A pair of mascots named Neve and Gliz will represent the 2006 Olympics in Turin. They were unveiled in a ceremony in Rome on the 500-day mark to the Games. Neve represents a snowball and ...

The duo were named after the Italian words for snow and ice with Neve deigned to a be a female humanized form of a snowball while Gliz was a male humanized form of an ice cube. The mascots were ...

Creator: Landor/Publicis 2006 Turin, Italy Names: Neve and Gliz The duo were named after the Italian words for snow and ice with Neve deigned to a be a female humanized form of a snowball while ...

The organisers of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics unveiled the event's mascots today, a friendly snowball called Neve and her playful ice cube partner Gliz. The cuddly pair, which represent the ...

Neve is an amorphous (female?) snowball, her name “synthetic, simple, with a soft and elegant sound.” Gliz, another fantasy name, is an amorphous (male?) iceball, his name has a “fresh ...

TURIN, Italy, Feb. 7 -- The official mascots of the 2006 Winter Olympics -- a female snowflake named Neve and a male ice cube named Gliz -- are looking increasingly fanciful as Friday's Opening ...

Life, already full of irritants, is about to acquire two more. Their names are Neve and Gliz, official mascots for the XXth Winter Olympiad. The work of an obscure Portuguese artist, Neve is a ...

Mascot love? Not quite. The SportsBusiness Journal took one look at Neve, a female snowball, and the male ice cube Gliz and called them “this uninspiring pair of illegitimate Gumby spawn.” ...

Cartoon characters named Neve and Gliz, representing a ball of snow and a block of ice, are the mascots for the 2006 Turin Olympics. This drawing of the 2006 Turin winter olympic mascots Neve and ...