Adidas Unveil New Team GB Kits
Adidas has today unveiled the brand new kit design Team GB will be rockin’ at the London 2012 Olympics.
Designed by Stella McCartney, the kit is said to be “focused on the British flag, breaking down the iconic design and reconstructing it, creating a modern and contemporary twist. The result is a bold design that features on all items of the kit to ensure the British athletes stand out in front of the home crowd and look like a unified team.”
The problem being that it is only the basketball kit which seems to have no resemblance of the union jack, or the colours associated with it. You can see the other sports’ versions in the official Team GB Facebook gallery here.
The kits have been received with a barrage of criticism from fans on Twitter and Facebook, with words such as “epic fail”, “utterly awful” and “rancid” being used to describe them.
My verdict? Really not feeling them. Not enough white and not representative enough of GB’s colours. Prefer last year’s, and the year before that even more.
What do you think?!
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