# Best Olympic uniforms **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 22, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461 "2014-01-22T18:40:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/1 "2014-01-22T18:40:30Z")
The contest is over before it’s even started.[Behold the Norwegian men’s curling team](http://www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/the-norwegian-olympic-curling-teams-uniform-is-so-just-perfe) in all its glory, and despair of your own pathetic ordinariness. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/2 "2014-01-22T22:39:00Z")
Wow. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/3 "2014-01-22T23:02:07Z")
These pants in the national colors are highly praiseweworthy. I applaud them. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/4 "2014-01-23T01:37:01Z")
Quite delightful. Thanks for the link. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/5 "2014-01-23T02:45:59Z")
Shouldn’t that link come with an epilepsy warning? ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/6 "2014-01-23T02:59:31Z")
It looks like something straight from the thrift shop. “I-I-I’m hunting Looking for a comeup This is fucking awesome!” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/7 "2014-01-23T03:01:33Z")
Cool. I think back in 1996(or so), the US had awesome female swimsuits for the swimming competitions. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/8 "2014-01-23T03:11:34Z")
Now how does Don Cherry top that? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/9 "2014-01-24T01:11:36Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Now how does Don Cherry top that? He’d wear one that glows in the dark? Seriously, I think those even top Cherry. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/10 "2014-01-24T03:47:33Z")
I looked it up and to my admitted amazement, M.C. Escher wasn’t Norwegian. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/11 "2014-01-24T22:15:59Z")
Didn’t the original Olympians compete nude? Now that was a uniform one could get behind. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/12 "2014-01-25T03:57:14Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > Didn’t the original Olympians compete nude? > > Now that was a uniform one could get behind. I don’t know, nude ice hockey sounds like a very, VERY bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/13 "2014-01-25T20:33:48Z")
[No one from the U.S. can make fun of them.](http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/24/living/gallery/winter-olympic-uniforms/) ---
**Author:** ![kurtisokc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kurtisokc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurtisokc)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/14 "2014-01-26T22:38:05Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The contest is over before it’s even started.[Behold the Norwegian men’s curling team](http://www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/the-norwegian-olympic-curling-teams-uniform-is-so-just-perfe) in all its glory, and despair of your own pathetic ordinariness. My gawd! That looks like Charlie Brown vomited up a Norwegian flag! > [@j666](#): > > [No one from the U.S. can make fun of them.](http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/24/living/gallery/winter-olympic-uniforms/) Sorry, but I think the Norwegian curlers have us beat in the ugly category. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/15 "2014-01-26T22:49:11Z")
> [@j666](#): > > [No one from the U.S. can make fun of them.](http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/24/living/gallery/winter-olympic-uniforms/) They’re all made in the USA too, so we cannot even blame those damned foreigners. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/16 "2014-01-27T02:19:33Z")
> [@kurtisokc](#): > > My gawd! That looks like Charlie Brown vomited up a Norwegian flag! > > Sorry, but I think the Norwegian curlers have us beat in the ugly category. They’re Norwegian Curlers! They can get away with it. But to wearing something like those sweaters & hats for the opening ceremonies? Why not just tattoo “We’re USA and we don’t care” on everyone’s naked butt? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-olympic-uniforms/679461/17 "2014-02-21T06:19:02Z")
I must say, I like the new Canadian hockey uniforms. I never liked the old uniform, with the hockey player skating towards the viewer; too busy, and splitting the maple leaf into red and black sections never made sense to me. Overall, it didn’t really say “Canada” to me; could have been any hockey organization in Canada. [the new uniforms](http://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/news/hockey-canada-and-nike-unveil-team-canada-jersey-for-2014-olympic-and-paralympic-winter-games) are simple and clear; red and white, with a maple leaf. No doubt who they represent.