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You Won't Believe How Many Crystals Adorn Team USA's Gymnastics Uniforms for 2024 Olympics
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Date:2025-04-09 05:51:17
The U.S. women's national gymnastics team will dazzle like never before at the 2024 Olympics.
The leotards that Team USA's gymnasts will wear on the mat at the Paris Olympics were revealed by USA Gymnastics and gymnastics apparel company GK Elite on July 10, and the outfits were made with thousands of Swarovski crystals. In fact, one uniform—the red, white and blue Luminous Legacy tank leotard—contains more than 10,000.
And while it is the most bedazzled of the gymnastics uniforms you may see on Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Hezly Rivera, and traveling alternates Leanne Wong and Joscelyn Roberson, the gold medal for the heaviest Olympics leotard goes to the Go for Glory Competition leotard.
The American flag-inspired outfit includes just under 10,000 crystals cut into diamond shapes and weighs 0.80 pounds—more than twice the weight of an average T-shirt.
The Go for Glory Competition leotards, which the gymnasts are expected to wear in the Team Final, pay homage to the iconic outfit the "Magnificent Seven" sported at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, where they became the first U.S. women's gymnastics team to win Olympic gold.
And this year’s athletes were able to have a say in GK Elite’s 2024 designs.
"They overwhelmingly, unanimously told us that for the Olympics, they want to wear red, white and blue," the company's design director Jeanne Diaz told NBC News, recalling communications with the gymnasts. "The more crystals, the better."
This isn’t the first time team USA brought some bedazzle to the competition floor. At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the American gymnasts wore leotards with 6,400 crystals, The New York Times reported.
In order to get used to the slightly greater weight, Lee said she warms up in her competition leotard. “I am obsessed with how the lights of the arena reflect off the crystals,” she told The New York Times in comments published July 10. “I am always telling GK I need more.”
This year, Team USA's gymnastics uniforms also feature pearls for the first time, with 970 of them joining the almost 3,500 crystals adorning the white Freedom’s Grace Competition leotard, which was inspired by couture runway gowns.
Lee added, “I keep thinking about which one I’ll want to wear, when."
Read on to see many of Team USA's 2024 Olympic uniforms...
Team USA is depicted wearing the outfits reserved for the Team Final. They pay homage to the iconic leotard the "Magnificent Seven" wore at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, where they became the first U.S. women's gymnastics team to win Olympic gold.
A close-up of the outfit shows its red, white and blue Spanglez design and standard brilliance and ruby crystals cut into diamond shapes—9,929 in total.
Weight: 0.80 lbs
Simone Biles is depicted wearing the outfit.
The outfit includes red and silver hologram Spanglez and more than 10,000 Swarovski crystals.
Weight: 0.60 lbs
The navy and white ombre outfit includes Silver Hologram Spanglez and 5,297 crystals, with 300 making up an American flag on the right hip area.
Weight: 0.65 lbs
The red and navy ombre outfit is adorned with over 5,000 crystals.
Weight: 0.55 lbs
The outfit is adorned with 3,423 standard brilliance and turquoise shimmer Crystals to create an imagining of Paris at twilight, with patterns that pay homage to the Eiffel Tower.
A close-up of the outfit.
The white leotard includes a red, white, and blue criss-cross corseting pattern on the back and 3,494 garnet, midnight, and brilliance crystals, as well as 970 white pearls.
Weight: 0.50 lbs
A close-up of the outfit.
The outfit includes 6,359 standard billiance, garnet, periwinkle, turquoise shimmer and metallic gold crystals.
Weight: 0.70 lbs
A close-up of the outfit.
Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics starting Friday, July 26, on NBC and Peacock.veryGood! (62615)
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