Day 4918: Winter Olympic Team Uniforms & Magnificent Musk Oxen.

 

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Are you enjoying the Winter Olympics?

Isn't Milan Cortina gorgeous? And, those beautiful young athletes?

For me, an admitted sports-viewing junkie, I am just coming down after Sumo, and the Australian Open Tennis last month, and now I have three channels of the Olympics available for two weeks. I found  information on some Winter Olympic Team uniforms to share.

(I thought the sweater cost was interesting?) 

At the Milan Cortina Winter Games, Haitian athletes Richi Viano and Stevenson Savart arrived not only as competitors but also as visual statements, redefining what winter sports representation can look like. Making their Winter Games debut, the athletes stepped into the global spotlight wearing custom Stella Jean originals that fused fashion, heritage, and defiance of expectation.

Mongolia's distinctive national identity and cultural heritage designed for the Olympic stage, the Mongolian National Olympic Committee entrusted Goyol with the prestigious responsibility of creating the ceremonial attire for Team Mongolia at the Winter Olympic Games. We are honored to have fulfilled this responsibility with utmost pride and dedication. This collection aims to reintroduce the ancient clothing culture, an inseparable part of our great history and cultural heritage to the contemporary world and share it on a global stage. Drawing inspiration from the attire of the Great Mongol Empire of the 13th - 15th centuries.

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She stands like a wall of fur and bone.

Not to threaten the world.

But to keep one small life warm.

This is a musk ox mother with her calf, surviving in one of the harshest environments on Earth.

Temperatures here can drop below −40°C, winds cut like knives, and food is buried under ice for most of the year.

Musk oxen don’t rely on speed.

They rely on presence.

When danger approaches, mothers and calves move to the center while adults form a living shield around them. Horns outward. Bodies pressed together. Heat shared. Fear absorbed.

That long, shaggy coat isn’t just for show.

It’s one of the warmest natural insulations in the animal kingdom, trapping air so efficiently that snow can melt on the outside while the calf stays warm inside.

This calf will learn the cold by staying close.

By listening to her breath.

By surviving inside her shadow.

In places where winter never apologizes,

love looks like standing still and refusing to move

 

  

 

A 6 minute video,  Mouse & Fox, here

 

 

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