norway’s curling team is appropriately dressed for valentine’s day
day 2: norway is still slaying the pants game
day 3: pants game is still on top
day 4: still impressive
day 5: another day another trouser
day 6: they have yet to wear one pair twice
Okay so I already reblogged this once but I’m reblogging again because I just watched a short documentary about these pants.
Apparently back at their first Olympics appearance, they (especially Chris Svae, the ginger who plays second) were pretty disappointed with their gear because the gear didn’t look flattering. They couldn’t change the shirts because of Norway federation sponsorships so they started looking for pants to wear. They had a hard time finding pants that both looked respectable enough for professional curling and stretchy enough to allow curling, and promptly gave up on finding pants that were both stretchy and professional.
Chris Svae ended up finding pants that were Norway-colors-ish that looked comfortable enough for curling, but had crazy patterns. People at Olympics were not happy about this because PATTERNS AREN’T RESPECTABLE ENOUGH, so they were conflicted. But the night before the opening ceremony, they were hanging out with a bunch of lady skiiers. Chris at some point just takes off his pants and put on the crazy pants they bought and asks “Do you think we should wear these pants” and the skiers were like “he’ll yeah you should totally do it”
So they wore the crazy pants to play in the Olympics, and a few days later the website where they bought the pants crashed. The owner of the website visited them in Vancouver for the Olympics, and then decided to sponsor the team.
And now, 8 years layer, the Norwegian team has a different pair of pants for each match. Including a Valentine’s day pair.
for figure skaters to be gay. Does that mean when you started skating you found a gay-friendly world that welcomed you?
No, I don’t think I found a world that welcomed me. Along with that stereotype there’s sometimes the push back, the “Not another one, we don’t want them.” That’s the way some people feel. And I got to a point where I thought, “Like me for who I am and if you don’t like me just because I’m gay, I feel sorry for you.” But what skating did do was allow me to start training in bigger cities, and all around the country and the world, and through this I met so many types of people.
Which came first, starting to skate or starting to understand that you were attracted to boys rather than girls?
Skating. When you’re in elite sports, it’s so easy for you to put your feelings of having a crush on someone on the back burner and just think, “I’m focused on what I’m doing right now, I’ll deal with that later.” I think it means a lot of different experiences happen later in life. Skating takes so much time and it’s a full-time job so you don’t have time to get into relationships or have those experiences when you’re younger.
So when did you first become aware of being attracted to men?
At first I was trying so hard and hoping that I wasn’t gay and I had one or two girlfriends when I was in my late teens. I was giving it my best shot and thinking, “Maybe I’m bisexual.” And then when I had my first kiss with a boy, I was like, “Ha ha, no I’m not. Babe, you’re gay!”
“Fine Figure of a Man: Adam Rippon will be the first out gay man to represent America in the Winter Olympics when he skates out onto the ice in South Korea” in Attitude Magazine
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