I also like the fact that they make a bold statement – not only am I a world class athlete who can kick your ass, but I’m also comfortable with my sexuality – and if this doesn’t work out I can always start a career as a hip hop artist or might just be the next big kung fu star.
Come on people!
Canada’s recent summer olympics performances have been a joke -and now they have costumes that fit that reflect that!
(Guy on the right with the headband looks like he’s wearing pyjamas!)
First time I’ve seen the official “Olympic” garb.
Too casual and primary for outside wear IMHO, but as Fred pointed out they have a place, I’d wear them as Pj’s.
Most of my other sleepwear is made in China too.
;~)
The gear this year is from the that well known canadian icon, Hudson’s Bay Company, having managed to steal it away from Roots. They apparently can’t sell it in their stores either. Never send a faux canadian to do a Canadian’s job….
[Yes, I know HBC is no longer Canadian…]
Kate why are you posting pictures from the gay pride parade?
The Olympics have started and we should be watching our athletes and… what they are our athletes you gotta be sh*tting me.
Shut up Largs, the girl second from the left has nice boobies.
We’re here….. we’re queer, we’re forced to wear this gear!
Just kidding, I know less and less about fashion every day , but shouldn’t there be a diner jacket/sports coat in the kit somewhere.
“You want to go to Hy’s wearing THAT!”
Oh and if this were a perfect country the HRC’s one and only duty would be to make sure no man wears capri pants while Canadian.
The Olympics suck anyway. This is just one more dab of lipstick applied to a very ugly pig.
seems to me there is more focus on the duds they wear than on supporting and developing the performance of the athletes.
*blink*
…oh, thought it was the Toronto Maple Leaf’s new uniform for a sec, almost as good as that other one with the blue frills..
ya what a shame…gosh, the girls should have been dressed up like the east europeans in lovely flowered dresses…even the fins and danes wore dresses…puke…
Fashion show of costumes instead of sports wears…I thought the canadians looked great…
The fashion show from other countries made me kind of sick…but they have no atheletes so I guess they have to present something…
But three cheers for the Chinese,,,the next world power…#3 now, thank god because they hate islam…their show was phenomenal…and their athlete wear appropriate…they are the hosts of the 21st century…Keeping all those lunatic canadian protesters in check tooo…
Great way of separating the wheat from the chaff. Any athelete who would wear that clothing must really want to win!
PJ’s maybe. Prison garb definitely!
I’m with RSP on this, the olympics are a cesspool of corruption and politics which should never be mixed with sports. do I really care that our country has the best synchronized swimmers or bridge players (or whatever else passes for a sport these days)? I just hope they never make rugby an olympic sport as it would be a blight on a great game.
And a spokesman for the wear really expects sales to go way up after the start of the games. Last olympics they made costumes for did not go over very well either. Fire them all.
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you sure this isn’t the cast
of “mamma mia”?
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reality check;
no one will purchase anything related to Canada’s olympic efforts this year because the design is horrendous
Canada will be lucky to win a single medal
CBC’s ratings for this years Olympics will be historically low
the Olympics are far too political to be taken seriously ie: no one cares
I like the traditional, more formal looking pajamas of the tall guy in front.
Maybe it’s a coach’s subtle way of motivating them, boy named Sue type of thing.
Canada wins the gold medal this year for for the sloppiest uniforms.
Canada wins the gold medal this year for the sloppiest uniforms.
Canada’s new Olympic uniforms reminded me of something:
http://www.sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/2008-06-23.gif
And what colour is the gas mask?
When it’s time to accessorize that new costume there is:
http://www.clownsupplies.com
Willie DeWitt refused to take part in any opening ceremonies at the ’84 games. He was roundly criticized, but now I’m beginning to see what he may have been dealing with.
My daughter is on the soccer team in Beijing. I asked her what the clothes were like. Her response was “not bad”. I can translate that for you. It means that there is one or two items in the mountain of outfits she has been given that she can wear in public without feeling foolish.
PiperPaul: “Shut up Largs, the girl second from the left has nice boobies.”
She does? Where? 😉
As for the Opening Ceremonies being “phenomenal” (Cosmos), I couldn’t help thinking about all of the Chinese people living in abject poverty, with no health benefits–or any other kind of benefits–and wondering how much all of the pyrotechnics and other razzle-dazzle cost.
There’s a huge credibility gap here. I thought, “No wonder this show is so amazing. The Chinese are making soya sauce out of human hair, cat and dog foot out of melanmine–all the better to get lots of money for–and most of their people are living in bone-crushing poverty.”
Sum total of respect and awe from me? Zero. Maybe minus-zero.
I was proud of Prime Minister Stephen Harper for passing on the Opening Ceremonies.
batb:
Too Funny
“bone-crushing poverty” And they didn’t need an earthquake for that either!
Hopefully “ROOTS” is chosen to fashion the Canadian Winter games outfits.
However I would cheer for our athletes even if they wore “flour bag sackcloth”.
a threat on O-limp-ic garb
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Look, it was either give the nod to supporting HBC’s loyal Chinese garment workers and Chinese Gay Pride or wearing leftover mountie costumes from past Miss Universe contests.
“As for the Opening Ceremonies being “phenomenal” (Cosmos), I couldn’t help thinking about all of the Chinese people living in abject poverty, with no health benefits–or any other kind of benefits–and wondering how much all of the pyrotechnics and other razzle-dazzle cost. ”
The number I heard was 300 million $$ for the opening cerimoies.
“I was proud of Prime Minister Stephen Harper for passing on the Opening Ceremonies.”
We should all be proud of S.H., I just wish we had higher principles and could have done something substantial instead of symbolic.
If taking a leadership role in the war on Carbon is sooooo important regardless of the lack tangible benefits; surely we could have taken a leadership role in the fight for human rights and democracy.
“No sacrifice. No victory!”
(Archibald Amundsen Witwicky)
Gawdafull! Why the hell can’t they just dress in ordinary clothes like most normal people do?
Those Roots “outfits” of a few years ago looked like Pierre Trudeau clones in drag. Now they got them to look like full-blown homosexuals.
What self-respecting male athelete would dress in such a nancy-suit? Must be a requirement for being approved for government funding.
I quit watching the Olympics when the changed the scoring in Amature Boxing. What an f’n joke!
Just too gay for me.
I like the outfits. You people have no sense of style.
Send in the clowns. OK you got it.
It did make me feel like ordering a pizza.
Postscript: It made the Australians feel better. They compared theirs to sucked ice cubes.
I love the Hats… Look like a group of house Painters, lacking ladders… Home Depot garb
Since when do -amateur- athletes have or need uniforms at all?
Propaganda show at all levels. Canada’s national propaganda happens to be really BAD this year.
I’ll regain interest in the Games when they drop the 10 meter air powered bean-shooter competition and have High Power Rifle and Long Range Rifle.
The gold medal winner in Womens 10 meter air pistol got a score of 400, that’s every hit in the “X” ring, which is the size of a confetti dot.
Perfect scores are BORING. They mean the game isn’t hard enough. They need to use REAL guns.
High Power is 200, 300 and 600 yards, fired standing, seated and prone, no limit on type of ammo or type of rifle. Iron sights ONLY. Nobody gets perfect scores.
Making things even more interesting is the Service Rifle division, you have to use whatever crap your government uses for standard issue. No super-special sniper sh1t, just GI iron, baby.
Long Range Rifle is fired whatever way you want, with whatever gun you want, iron sights only, 1000 yards. Now we’re talking marksmanship.
Buy your own kit, supply your own ammo (80 rounds per match) and if you win you get a nice trophy and bragging rights. If you are in a shooting club, the uniform consists of a club patch for your shooting coat, and maybe everybody wears the same t-shirt. That my friends is amateur sport.
I’d also consider Olympic drag racing. $3000.00 claimer class, winner gets a kiss from Miss Olympia.
the only way to make these uniforms any gayer is to tape a rainbow flag to the crotch.
as Simon would say “horrific”
Thank God we got these hideous outfits for the Summer Games…can you imagine any of our Team Canada hockey guys in that crap?????
Sammy; 2010 is just ’round the corner, any bets the uniform contracts are already let? If the Hockey guys see their uniforms and hate them, what’d be the incentive for them to compete?
What a pi$$-off that our Olympic competetors have to dress like the little girls that I see on the ferry wearing their PJ’s.
Strange Brew
If this consumer crap is any indication http://www.vancouver2010.com/store/
we can expect the 2010 Winter ensembles to be just as bad…
Who thinks up these insults?
the “twenty-ten” (what’s wrong with two thousand ten?) Olympic mascots are Japanese animated…um, well, they’re Japanese animation things that are supposed to represent something west coast, but really looks like Japanese animation. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Yep, a load of crap. The fashion designers at the olympics may be the only true “amateurs” of this whole event.
After this is all over stand by for the obligatory “we need more taxpayer’s dollars to fund these athletes if we are ever going to win medals” cry.
BTW, who pays for these, er, uniforms?
The athletes themselves, their teams, or the taxpayers?
And WHY would the Hudson’s Bay Company think they had to use Chinese/Canadian designers: Tu Ly and Vivienne Lu? Because the Olympic Games are IN CHINA?
Mr. Ly on their designs: “We had a fashion show, and, like any fashion show, it was about fantasy…But it was good because it brought a lot of people into the store, and good designs are supposed to inspire, excite and provoke.”
The defence of “inspire, excite, and provoke” sounds oddly familiar. It’s the same justification for the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the ROM. Who cares if it’s functional or beautiful? As long as it inspires controversy and has people talking, it’s great.
Revisionism at its most crass.
The whole thing was a debacle, IMHO, except when they zoomed away from those drummers and it looked like a fabric of drumming nanobots.
What was with the American outfits? Was it a revival of “Guys and Dolls”? I was expecting them to break out into a rousing rendition of Oficer Krempski or “I’ve got a horse right here, his name is Paul Revere…” Or maybe they were going to give Daisy Buchanon a ride to Gatsby’s house, I just don’t know.
I can’t blame Bush for looking at his watch, or using the time productively by jawing with Putin.
Its more important to look good, than to feel good.
read the current Foreign Policy for a list of the many negatives surrounding the olympics.
highlighting the corruption evident in the host city selection process.
Not bad costumes if they were Cirque du Soleil performers.
2010? Hah!
Only Canada would choose a pile of rocks for an Olympic symbol.
What makes anyone think the uniforms will be any better?
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