12 Ridiculous Olympic Team Outfits Throughout History

The six-week countdown to the 2012 London Summer Olympics’ opening ceremony has officially begun. The best part of any Olympics opening ceremony? The crazy team outfits that countries force their athletes to wear.

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12 Ridiculous Olympic Team Outfits Through...
Jessica Testa

1. Spain’s mustard-and-ketchup suits, 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

What, Spain? You couldn’t get a giant hot dog to roll in with you?

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2. Australia goes on a safari adventure, 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics

Crikey.

Source: smh.com.au

3. U.S.A. forgets to change out of their gym clothes, 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics

Other countries went formal. We wore Levi Strauss track suits.

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4. Lithuania experiments with color, 2004 Athens Summer Olympics

(And fails.)

Image by JACQUES DEMARTHON, AFP / Getty Images

5. Hungary gets splattered with pattern, 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

The dudes were allowed to wear perfectly fine suits.

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6. All Americans are cowboys, right? 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics

America decides to present itself to the world with cowboy hats. Yee haw.

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7. New Zealand goes for the ever-edgy bowling team look, 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

Also, that guy is on his cell phone. During the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

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8. U.S.A. really likes its stripes, 1960 Rome Summer Olympics

They could break out in barbershop song any minute.

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9. Japan prepares for rain, 2004 Athens Summer Olympics

The coats and hats are twee and charming, but Olympics appropriate?

Image by ROBERTO SCHMIDT, AFP / Getty Images

10. Casual Roger Federer, 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

Really, R. Fed, are those BATHING SUIT BOTTOMS?

Image by Jeff Gross, Getty Images Sport / Getty Images

11. France is too cool, 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics

Surprisingly, this is not a still from Sofia Coppola’s version of the 1976 Olympics.

Image by Keystone-France, Gamma-Keystone / Getty Images

12. And then France lets itself go a little, 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

What’s going on here, France? With the berets? And the belts? Let’s talk before 2012.

Image by Cameron Spencer, Getty Images Sport / Getty Images

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