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For the lake in Turkey, see Lake Amik.
Amik was the mascot of the 1976 Summer Olympics. Amik was a beaver. In the Anishinaabe language, amik means "beaver." The beaver was chosen as mascot, because it represents hard work and it is also an animal native to Canada, the country where the games were held. The next Olympic mascot, at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, was 'Mishka' - a brown bear. Mishka - or Misha as the bear was also named - is a diminutive for Russian name Mikhail (Michael).
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