U.S. Closing Ceremony Outfits Get Run Over By Critics: 'Channeling NASCAR'
Ralph Lauren should have left these duds on pit row.
The clothing company got slammed Sunday for the auto racing aesthetic of its closing ceremony outfits for the U.S. team at the ParisOlympics.
Commenters on social media joked that the uniforms looked like something out of NASCAR or Will Ferrell’s “Talladega Nights,” while others quipped that they were hideous valet parking outfits.
The two people who might be left with the most skid marks on them, however, are flag bearers Katie Ledecky and Nick Mead, who first entered the Stade de France for the Americans and have been at the center of most of the jokes about the country’s closing ceremony uniforms.
“There a reason the US team is channeling NASCAR in their outfits?” one person wrote on X, formerly called Twitter. “Waiting on them to break out some Budweisers and Big Macs.”
Check out more comments below:
Katie Ledecky embodies the "If you're not first, you're last" vibe of this outfit. #ClosingCeremony#Olympicspic.twitter.com/TEwdhsoYeu
— Diana Gonzales It's Sho-time! (@trojanchick99) August 11, 2024
.@TeamUSA closing ceremony outfits: "NASCAR by Ralph Lauren"
— joe janecek (@joejanecek) August 11, 2024
Hideous “parking attendant” closing ceremony outfits for USA
— Safety 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦💚 (@PremSafety) August 11, 2024
The USA closing ceremony outfits look like they’re about to join a NASCAR race #ClosingCeremony
— ⚾️🖤♡Amanda♡🖤⚾️ (@zephyrsky) August 11, 2024
Everyone’s #ClosingCeremony outfits are so clean and then the US… is wearing something straight out of the Ricky Bobby collection.
— I’m Trying, Tameka! (@BeezHunny) August 11, 2024
Why can't USA athletes have opening/closing ceremony outfits that don't look look like prep school uniforms or NASCAR drivers
— kristen (@quadrupleloops) August 11, 2024
What in the world are these NASCAR uniform outfits for the closing ceremony? I’m begging the US to get another designer for these athletes #OlympicGames#closingceremony
— eattherich (@InesD) August 11, 2024
I'm gonna need someone other than Ralph Lauren doing the opening/closing ceremony outfits for LA28.
Katie Ledecky looks like she just won the Indy 500. #ClosingCeremony— Laffin' Tim (@TDHGTFO) August 11, 2024
