There will be twenty-six, yes twenty-six, different primary logos for the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles. I mean, at this point just add two more so you could match the year. But why, oh why would they release 26 different logos for the games? Because “no
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2020 USA Olympic Basketball Uniforms Revealed by Nike
Nike today revealed many of the uniforms that U.S. athletes will wear when they compete at the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The highlight of the whole set (which you can see here) is what the men’s and women’s basketball teams will wear as they each roll towards
Logo for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris Unveiled
The logo for both the 2024 Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Paris, France was unveiled late last night by The Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024. For the first time, the logos for both events are identical with the exception of the Olympic rings
Russian Olympians to wear most boring logo ever
Widespread allegations of systematic, institutionalized doping have led to Russia being banned from the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, but the International Olympic Committee has made provisions for Russian athletes to compete without representing their home country. The IOC yesterday unveiled an intentionally boring mark that Russian athletes will wear during competition.
Logos Unveiled for 2022 Winter Olympics, Paralympics
The official logos for the 2022 Winter Olympics and 2022 Winter Paralympics were unveiled late last week at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China; the host of these games to be held a little more than four years from now. Focusing on the logo for the Olympic Games first,
Nike Unveils All 2018 Olympic Hockey Jerseys
Nike today unveiled the jersey designs for all thirteen of the countries participating in the 2018 Winter Olympic and Paralympic hockey tournaments. The uniforms were all designed to be as lightweight as possible, in fact they’re calling them Nike’s lightest hockey jerseys ever. To do this there has been a
2018 Olympic Hockey Jerseys Unveiled for Canada, USA
The National Hockey League will not send their players to the 2018 Winter Olympics… maybe they saw the uniforms they’d be wearing and decided against it. Nevertheless the hockey games will still go on. Today the uniforms that the top non-NHL hockey players from Canada and the United States will
Bejewelled leotards most expensive Olympic uniforms ever
The USA women’s “Final Five” gymnastics team won gold in Rio, but it was the glitter coming from their uniforms that turned some observers’ heads. According to CNN Money, the leotards were bedazzled with as many as 5,000 Austrian Swarovski crystals embedded in the high-tech fabric with the help of a machine with robot arms, and
Beijing 2022 Olympic Committee Announces Call for Logos
The organizing committee for the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing is looking for designers to create logos for both the Olympics and the Paralympics. A lot of details are missing from the call for ideas, like technical specifications and whether the designers will actually be paid for their work, but the
They’re grrrrreat! 2018 Olympic mascots not too creepy or terrifying
The 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics will take place in PyeongChang, South Korea, where a tiger named Soohorang and a bear named Bandabi will serve as the official mascots. The official Olympic mascot, a white tiger named Soohorang, reflects South Korea’s national animal, the Siberian tiger. (In the interest of biological accuracy,
South Korea Unveils Zika-Proof Olympic Uniforms
The Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are on track to be a huge disaster, but the South Korean team will show up in Brazil prepared for at least one of the issues plaguing the games. To protect its athletes against the dreaded Zika virus, South Korea’s newly unveiled
Hindsight is 2020: Tokyo (Again) Unveils Logo for 2020 Olympics
If at first you don’t succeed… or get caught plagiarizing. Try, try again. Just nine months after unveiling their original logo for both the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Tokyo Organizing Committee has announced yet another new set of logos, this time featuring more of a chequered pattern and less