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
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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
Nike Unveils 2016 Olympic Basketball Uniforms
Nike held an event yesterday in New York where they (among other things) unveiled the basketball uniforms for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be held later this year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We weren’t there nor were we privy to a media kit of the unveiling, so… enjoy your bare
LA 2024 bid logo wants us to follow the sun
The committee that’s vying to bring the Olympics to the City of Angels in 2024 unveiled a new logo yesterday, featuring LA’s heavenly namesake and the sunshine that the city is known for. The organization’s new website, emblazoned with the slogan, “LA 2024 is about what’s possible when you follow the
2020 Olympic logo dropped after plagiarism charge
In response to accusations of plagiarism, the organizing committee for the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo is dropping their logo. The decision came in an emergency meeting after Belgian designer Olivier Debie charged that Tokyo logo designer Kenjiro Sano copied the logo he created in 2013 for the Théâtre de Liège in Belgium. Kenjiro
Logos Unveiled for Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, Paralympics
The logos for both the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics was unveiled earlier today at a press event in the host city of Tokyo, Japan. The Olympic mark features a large black “T” (not only for “Tokyo”, but also “Tomorrow”, and “Team”); beside the “T” is a red circle which
Rainbows, hypocrisy, curling pants: Wardrobe medalists at the Winter Olympics
As we enter the final week of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, we’ve gotten a good look at some rather interesting uniforms throughout these games thus far. Here we’ll show you the wild, the wonderful, the winners, and the losers at the wardrobe event of the 2014 Winter Olympics.