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The names won 44 percent of votes in an online poll and were
revealed on Brazilian TV show Fantastico.
The Olympic mascot will be named after Antonio Carlos Jobim, who
was known more commonly as 'Tom'.
The Paralympic mascot is named after Vinicius de Moraes.
The pair were instrumental in the development of bossa nova
music and wrote dozens of songs together, most famously the tale
of a young girl who passed their bar each day as she walked to
Ipanema beach.
The announcement came 600 days before the start of the games,
the first ever to be held in South America.
(Reporting by Andrew Downie; editing by Ian Ransom)
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