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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Let’s Rate Canada’s Best and Worst Olympics Uniforms of all Time
 
From Nagano 1988 Roots caps to cowboy hats at Calgary 1988, our most memorable looks
By Sarah Laing
Berets and Bay stripes, sweeping capes and Western-style fringing: The only predictable thing about Canada’s Olympics uniforms over the decades has been their ability to stoke conversation, and typically—but not always—a flag-red colour palette.

This year’s Lululemon-designed Winter Olympics kit has met both criteria, courtesy of a raft of scarlet pieces and one divisive maple-festooned puffer-shrug worn by athletes at the opening ceremony. With the Games underway and the closing ceremony still to come, we’ve constructed a podium of our own, ranking the best, worst and most talked-about Canadian Olympics kits over the decades.

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