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Outrage Over China-Made U.S. Olympic Outfits
- Washington Post, Monday, July 16, 2012 9:17 AM
Ralph Lauren is the name, but China's got the game. Congressional Democrats went ballistic on the U.S. Olympic Committee after news reports that U.S. athletes in this year’s London Games will wear outfits designed by American Ralph Lauren but manufactured mostly in China. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Senate Democrats from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio introduced a bill that requires the USOC to outfit Olympic athletes in ceremonial uniforms “sewn or assembled in the United States.”
