Canada typically sends one moose statue to the athletes village, but this year, because the Games are spread out across Italy’s mountains, they will be sending six.Rebecca Blackwell/The Canadian Press
The Canadian Olympic Committee has a tradition of sending a life-sized moose statue with its team to each Olympic Games and displaying it as a sort of mascot in the athletes’ village.
As the federation prepares to compete at the upcoming Milano Cortina Winter Games – considered the most geographically widespread Olympics in history, and one with six different athletes villages – Team Canada needed a few more moose.
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