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02-07-2018, 05:11 AM
The Norwegian curling team's pants are the real stars of the Olympics
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Before the Winter Olympics in 2010, curling pants were fairly nondescript. Curling, as the New York Times later wrote (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/sports/olympics/norwegian-curlers-are-back-and-so-are-their-pants.html), was a "sport in which athletes traditionally wear black and draw little notice outside curling circles."*
But the Norwegian men's team in Vancouver changed everything. Instead of basic black, they wore so-ugly-you'll-love-them argyle pants in red, indigo, and white — the colors of the Norwegian flag.
SEE ALSO: That really oily guy from the Olympics is going to compete in the Winter Games (https://mashable.com/2018/01/22/pita-taufatofua-winter-olympics-cross-country-skiing/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Then, in 2014, they cemented their fashion icon status, sporting a wide variety of Norway-themed slacks as they competed in Sochi.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/06/norway-curling-uniforms-olympics-fashion/)
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Before the Winter Olympics in 2010, curling pants were fairly nondescript. Curling, as the New York Times later wrote (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/sports/olympics/norwegian-curlers-are-back-and-so-are-their-pants.html), was a "sport in which athletes traditionally wear black and draw little notice outside curling circles."*
But the Norwegian men's team in Vancouver changed everything. Instead of basic black, they wore so-ugly-you'll-love-them argyle pants in red, indigo, and white — the colors of the Norwegian flag.
SEE ALSO: That really oily guy from the Olympics is going to compete in the Winter Games (https://mashable.com/2018/01/22/pita-taufatofua-winter-olympics-cross-country-skiing/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Then, in 2014, they cemented their fashion icon status, sporting a wide variety of Norway-themed slacks as they competed in Sochi.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/06/norway-curling-uniforms-olympics-fashion/)
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