Norway’s curling team won Valentine’s Day
Norway’s curling team is here to sweep you off your feet.
Not with their brooms. With their pants.
Pink pants covered in dozens and dozens of hearts.
The Scandanavian sensations competed in the rosy slacks in their round robin match on Valentine’s Day, losing 6-4 to Japan.
The Norwegian Curling Team’s Pants win #ValentinesDay ❤️️ pic.twitter.com/332M4etJJx
— Eurosport (@eurosport) February 14, 2018
Christoffer Svae, Haavard Vad Petersson, Torger Nergaard and Thomas Ulsrud are winning off the ice, though. They’re winning hearts all over the world with the hearts all over their pants.
Gaze at your own risk. Anyone who looked at those pants for more than 15 seconds is now in a common law marriage with one of these fine gentlemen. That’s how it works in Norway. Congratulations, Mrs. Ulsrud.
The Valentine’s Day theme was topical, but the pants aren’t new. Curlers typically wear simple uniforms, with some reflection of their country’s colors but little flash to catch the eye. In 2010 in Vancouver, however, the Norwegians decided to change all that. They showed up in slacks of crimson, indigo and white argyle, representing the colors on their country’s flag.
Four years later in Sochi, they came with pants in houndstooth prints, flag prints, swirls and a daring floral pattern. It was enough to make Johnny Weir blush. For their grand finale, they chose a geometric pattern with assorted red, white and blue rectangles inspired by cubist artist Piet Mondrian. Mondrain was Dutch, but whatever. It was their Gwenyth Paltrow at the Oscars in baby-pink Ralph Lauren moment (actually, it might have been the Bjork swan dress).
And now they’re back.
Curling is the best. Top Winter Olympic sport for sure. Find me when someone does a triple lutz in Zubaz.
https://twitter.com/olympicchannel/status/963365978154422272
