Imagine you're a young boy or girl with a dream of competing in the Olympic Games as a swimmer, runner or gymnast. So you sacrifice ten to twelve years of your life, along with any semblance of a normal childhood and adolescence, training with a battery of elite coaches your parents had to go tens of thousands of dollars into debt to pay for, enduring countless injuries and setbacks along the way. But you relentlessly continue to pursue your dream, and after all the hard work, sweat and agony, you make it through the National Team trials---and the reward for all your efforts is this??!?
I'm not so offended that they were made in China than by the fact that they were made at all. Still can't decide whether Leni Riefenstahl or The Love Boat was the greater aesthetic influence behind them, but dear God, I would drink antifreeze before I wore this godawful shit. No wonder some of our athletes skipped the opening ceremonies.
---Vitelius
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