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Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat was an unofficial mascot of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics created by Sydney cartoonist Paul Newell with Roy and HG from the Australian Channel Seven sports/comedy television program The Dream with Roy and HG, which covered the event.^[1]^[2] He took the form of a life-size stuffed toy wombat with a lazy, cheerful expression and comically pronounced rump, and usually appeared on The Dream broadcasts on Roy and HG's desk.

Fatso was a spoof of the official Olympic mascots Olly, Millie, and Syd; whom Roy & HG disparaged as "Olly, Millie and Dickhead".^[3] He was nicknamed "the battlers' prince" and proved to be more popular among Australian fans (and some visitors who viewed the program) than the official mascots.^[4] Fatso appeared with Gold Medalists Susie O'Neill, Grant Hackett and the Australian men's 4×200 metre relay team on the winners' dais.^[1]^[2] He consequently appears on an official commemorative postage stamp of the Australian men's 4×200 metre relay team in the arms of Michael Klim.^[5] During the Olympics, the Australian Olympic Committee attempted to ban athletes appearing with Fatso to stop him upstaging their official mascots.^[2] The ensuing public relations disaster forced the president of the AOC, John Coates, and the director general of the IOC, Francois Carrard, to distance their organisations from these attempts.^[1]^[6]

In keeping with Fatso's role as a protest against the commercialization of Olympic mascots,^[3] only two Fatsos were officially produced: one for use in the studio and the other for use in the athletes' village.^[1] At the end of the Olympics, one of the Fatsos was auctioned for the Olympic Aid charity, selling for A$80,450 to Seven Network executive chairman Kerry Stokes. Fatso is currently housed in a glass box in Kerry Stokes' North Sydney office.^[6] A number of unofficial Fatso toys and memorabilia were sold by merchants without authorization from the producers of The Dream.^[7]^[8] A statue of Fatso appeared as part of an official Olympic memorial outside the Sydney Olympic Stadium, commemorating the volunteers who worked during the Olympics.^[6] The Fatso statue was vandalised in late September 2010, then stolen sometime before 8 October 2010.^[9]

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1. ^¹²³{{cite news|url=http://www.stp.uh.edu/vol66/26/sports/sports3.html |title='Fat-arsed' wombat mascot causes uproar in Australia |work=The Daily Cougar |author=Jim Parsons |date=26 September 2000 |accessdate=2006-04-11 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050508001640/http://www.stp.uh.edu/vol66/26/sports/sports3.html |archivedate=8 May 2005 }}
2. ^¹²{{cite web |url=http://www.strategicresources.com.au/fatso.html |title=The Rise of Fatso - The Fat Arsed Sydney Olympics Wombat |publisher=Strategic Resources International |accessdate=2006-04-11 |date=February 2001}}
3. ^¹{{cite journal |first=Jim |last=Marr |url=http://workers.labor.net.au/81/d_review_roy.html |title=Satire: Roy Slaven on the Rampage |journal=Workers Online |issue=81 |date=8 December 2000 |accessdate=2006-06-30}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18646788%255E5000107,00.html |title=Is John So still our bro? |publisher=Herald Sun Sunday |first=Jill |last=Singer |date=30 March 2006 |accessdate=2006-04-11 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060629045113/http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C5478%2C18646788%255E5000107%2C00.html |archivedate=29 June 2006 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy-all }}
5. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.indiavarta.com/Olympics/FullStory.asp?id=OLF20000922043126&eTitle=Olympics+%2D+Fun+and+Colour&rLink=0 |title='Groin gags, anti-mascot fatso lift Aussie duo to cult |work=indiavarta.com |author=Reuters |date=22 September 2000 |accessdate=2007-03-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928042039/http://www.indiavarta.com/Olympics/FullStory.asp?id=OLF20000922043126&eTitle=Olympics+-+Fun+and+Colour&rLink=0 |archivedate=28 September 2007 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy-all }}
6. ^¹²{{cite news |first=Rachel |last=Browne |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/17/1089694613537.html |title=Roy, HG leave Fatso home |publisher=Sun Herald |date=18 July 2004 |accessdate=2006-06-30}}
7. ^Fatso the Wombat Online: THE Unofficial Fatso Fanclub, Pandora Archive, National Library of Australia, archived 2000-11-20
8. ^Fatso the Wombat Online: THE Unofficial Fatso Fanclub Tee-Shirt order form, Pandora Archive, National Library of Australia, archived 2000-11-20
9. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/fatso-the-wombat-goes-wandering/story-e6frfmqr-1225935639062 |title=Fatso the Wombat goes wandering |date=8 October 2010 |work=The Daily Telegraph |accessdate=20 October 2010}}