Opinion

America’s Olympic attire: A gold-medal faux pas

The Issue: Objections to the US Olympic uniforms, which are internationally styled and made in China.

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French berets and uniforms made overseas — welcome to the United States Olympic team (“Team USA, China-Made,” July 13).

Brian Donnelly

Highland Mills

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US senators may be upset about the Olympic uniforms being made in China, but Americans are upset that the Senate has not come up with a budget in three years.

John van Acken

Bellerose

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Is Ralph Lauren serious about the uniforms our athletes are going to be wearing?

It looks like they’re going on a yacht. And since when do we advertise on Olympic uniforms?

Get a designer who will dress them like Americans, not Frenchmen.

Stan Witkowski

Parlin, NJ

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After seeing The Post’s pictures of the Olympic uniforms, I immediately thought of the scene in “Caddyshack” where Rodney Dangerfield confronts the yacht club “admiral.”

All we need are some faux medals, and the uniform will be complete.

Peter Tylenda

Windsor

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If the United States every year can import billions of dollars’ worth of cellphones, crude oil, automobiles, computers, medicine and watches, why is it wrong to import uniforms from China for our Olympic athletes?

Every adult in the United States has benefited from the consumption of at least one of the products identified above.

And if China is also good enough to lend the United States money, certainly it is good enough to provide us with team uniforms, no matter what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says.

Alan Hirsch

Port Washington

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I never understood why the US Olympic teams dressed as cowboys and cowgirls for so many years. But Frenchifying them doesn’t make a lot of sense, either.

Gerry Muir

Mamaroneck