12 Ridiculous Olympic Team Outfits Throughout History

The six-week countdown to the 2012 London Summer Olympics’ opening ceremony has officially begun.

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.

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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.)

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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?

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10. Casual Roger Federer, 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

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

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11. France is too cool, 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics

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

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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.

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