Asian Games 2018: List of all Asian Games Mascots

Beijing 1990

Pan Pan the Panda was the second mascot based on a real-life animal

The Beijing Asian Games followed the Delhi Games by creating a mascot of a real-life animal. As with Appu, Pan-Pan was based on Basi, a captive Panda in China.

In 2017, before Basi finally passed away, she was the oldest living Panda in captivity. China's most adored animal was given an everlasting image when she was converted into a mascot for the 1990 Asian Games.

Hiroshima 1994

An Indonesian stamp of the 1994 Asian Games Mascots- Poppo and Cuccu

The Asian Games went to Hiroshima in 1994, to find a city back on its feet after years of distress.

Hiroshima was a victim of the USA dropping an Atom bomb during the Second World War. It took decades for the city to get back on its feet. As a result, when they welcomed the whole of Asia in 1994, they did with the universal symbol of peace- two white dove mascots who went by the name of Poppo and Cuccu.