Technological Secret Warfare Of Chinese Olympic Uniform

There are only a handful of opening days for the Beijing Olympic Games. The three major sports brands of Adidas, Nike and Lining have announced their respective equipment for sponsoring the Chinese Olympic Legion.

These equipment, whether it is the auspicious pattern of Adidas's award dress, the Terracotta Army pattern of the Qin Dynasty in Nike's clothing, or the traditional Chinese red which is widely used in Lining's competition suit, and the complex modeling of oriental charm with peony, Ruyi moire, Phoenix, etc.

It shows that three companies hit China in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games equipment competition.

Apart from the unique characteristics of "Chinese elements", science and technology content has become the most important decisive factor in today's sports equipment.

In terms of science and technology licensing, three companies have made strange moves, hoping that their brand equipment can become a sharp weapon to help athletes improve their athletic performance.

The Chinese elements: the national anthem and the Terracotta Army Nike are not the sponsors of the Olympic Games in Beijing, nor the partners of the Olympic Committee. However, with the good cooperation with many sports associations in China, Nike has sponsored the Olympic equipment of the 22 Chinese sports teams (28 items in the summer Olympic Games), including track and field, swimming, weightlifting, basketball, tennis, bicycles, fencing, archery, BMX BMX and canoeing.

It also includes famous athletes such as Liu Xiang and Yi Jianlian.

Nike, Nike, has introduced the Chinese red color competition suit, while in the front position of several matches, there is a Chinese dragon's dark pattern.

The main color of the match suit is large red, and the decorative ribbons on both sides are golden yellow.

With the Yellow CHINA on the chest, it can be recognized as a member of the Chinese team at a glance.

In details, Nike is also the main Chinese element, and there are different degrees of Chinese dragon hidden flowers in necklines, back and chest.

What is worth mentioning is that Nike has also applied the Terracotta Army of Qin Dynasty to the costume design of the Chinese Olympic Legion.

The amulets, masks and spirits of Terracotta Army symbolizes patriotism and devotion.

In addition, the inside of the uniform is printed with "intimate words" that only athletes can see. That is the most typical word in Chinese National Anthem: "get up" and "go forward".

Technology content: light Flywire technology fiber and other Nike products include light Flywire technology fiber and Lunarlite cushioning sports shoes, and NikeSwift functional sports wear made from recycled polyester.

The Flywire shoe upper supporting technology and the Lunarlite cushioning lightweight shock absorption system can help athletes play a better performance in fast and high-intensity competition.

NikeSwift swimsuit is Nike's anti drag skin suit launched against shark skin.

In addition, the NikeSwift race suit used in sprint has set another world record: the new sportswear is made of 100% recycled polyester yarn.

Besides, NikeSphere and Aerographics are specially designed for cooling and sweating. Seamless stitching technology can avoid skin inflammation. Four, the elastic fabric can release the body to the maximum extent, and the Dri-FIT fabric is one of the lightest fabrics.

The latest robe of Liu Xiang, announced by Liu Xiang's robe, is mainly red, with a yellow little short sleeve. No seams can be seen outside. It feels as thin as a cicada and as light as a piece of paper.

According to the clothing designer, this suit that closely matches the athlete's body will reduce Liu Xiang's wind resistance by 7%, which can speed him up for 0.02 seconds.

Liu Xiang, who has tried through the new robe, said: "it is difficult to wear a match suit when it is worn, and it is difficult to get rid of it when it is removed."

This also proves the excellent closeness of the robe.

Liu Xiang's shirt, Lining and Chinese elements: China red lucky line gold zipper head "Lining" equipment, from the twenty-fifth Barcelona Olympic Games to the twenty-eighth Athens Olympic Games are all Chinese Olympic legions designated award equipment.

In 2008, the Lining brand will provide competition clothing and equipment for Chinese Olympic team diving, gymnastics, table tennis and shooting four "dream teams".

Lining, the Chinese element is Lining's designer who has insisted on the core of design for many years.

The dragon clothing of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and the splendid China of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games are masterpieces of Lining's design team.

This year, the Chinese elements of the "Lining" equipment are further expanded. The "LuckyLine" (lucky line) of the four team jerseys is one of the most outstanding highlights. The design inspiration comes from the evolution of Lining logo into the "L" shape line, which is also lucky (L is the initials of Lucky).

In addition, the designer applied the pure gold material to Lining's costume for the first time, and made the gold zipper head with the Olympic gold medal shape.

Each "gold medal" is placed behind the names of the players.

Besides the lucky line and the gold zipper head, the "Lining" equipment also used a large number of traditional Chinese red, supplemented by gold, parrot blue and other colors; printing technology, the use of color optics principle, to achieve color gradient, metal texture and other strong visual effects in the future.

On the design, the image of "Golden Dragon" is integrated into the clothes of the table tennis players, and the king's hegemony is highlighted. The diving team's suits are painted with blue and white porcelain patterns; the gymnastic costume takes the stage as the design concept and adopts the complex style of oriental charm with peony, Ruyi Moyun, Phoenix, etc., which is in sharp contrast with the concise style of the concentric circle of the shooting team.

Technology content: XtraLife LYCRA fiber and so on. In addition to the design, the Lining brand has been researched and developed on the basis of different motion characteristics.

In addition to diving suit drains and table tennis clothing, the choice of professional moisture absorption and sweat perspiration fabric COOLMAX application, there is also a XtraLife LYCRA fiber also used in gym suits and bathing suits.

Its high quality elasticity enables fabrics to be highly conformal, prevent laxity and blistering, allowing athletes to unfettered and stretch in games.

What is more amazing is that natural extraction technology is applied to the daily clothes of female diving team members.

The natural extracts were concentrated into microcapsules and evenly incorporated into elastic fabrics containing LY-CRA (Lycra) fibers.

Therefore, when the body is moving, the unique elastic properties of Lycra fiber fabrics make these microcapsules easier to crack, so that the nutrients contained directly release to the skin, bringing the elegant fragrance of lavender, which can help athletes relax their body and mind outside the stadium and wait for their hair to grow.

The Chinese element: Xiangyun pattern, Adidas is the official partner of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. It provides sports equipment for all the staff and technical officials of the Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, and also provides sportswear for the Chinese sports delegation to Beijing Olympic Games.

In July 15th this year, Adidas announced the Chinese sports delegation's award dress at the Olympic Games.

The biggest feature of this award dress is the gradual change of red, white, yellow and tricolor, the dynamic cloud pattern of the line, the five star red flag and five ring sign on the left chest, and the golden CHINA behind it.

The overall design of Adidas jacket is gorgeous, and the main tone comes from the red and yellow colors of the national flag. It has a distinct symbolic meaning. The whole coat is treated with red, yellow and white discoloration to form an excellent visual sense of flow. The design pattern follows the classic elements of Beijing Olympic Games: auspicious cloud pattern, but the designer boldly uses the asymmetric design method to let Xiangyun "rise" and create a visual effect of rhythm and tension, symbolizing auspicious beauty and becoming the finishing touch.

It is learnt that the design of "Xiangyun" award dress is from more than 2000 candidate works, and the designer is the designer of the fashion department of Wang Li.

Science and technology content: digital printing, Adidas's award winning clothing for the Chinese Olympic Legion is made of high-tech digital printing technology.

Since the number of this award dress is 17, printing can not be produced in batches and can only be printed individually.

This printing uses heat pfer technology, which is to print the printed patterns on paper first, and then copy them to the cloth after drying, so the waiting time is longer.

The printing of the award dress was completed in Thailand, and the sewing process was in Guangdong, China. The whole production process lasted six months.

Besides, Adidas president Haina also revealed that Adidas will show its latest products and technological innovations in the field of sports shoes to the world at the Beijing Olympic Games, involving most sports items.

(Speedo) the Chinese swimmers are wearing shark skins. The Chinese swimming team is one of the 22 Chinese Olympic teams sponsored by Nike.

According to the agreement, the NikeSwift swimsuit is the Chinese swimming team competition suit, and is also the resistance competition suit launched by Nike against the "Speedo LZR RACER (fourth generation shark skin)".

But a few days ago, the Chinese swimming team quietly changed the swimsuit and put on the "Speedo LZR RACER" in the Olympic swimming pool.

It is rare to compete for different brands of war clothes.

The story behind this is quite intriguing.

Speedo what is the Chinese swimmers for shark skin Speedo? Speedo LZR RACER is the fourth generation of "shark skin" bathing suit jointly developed by Speedo, NASA and Australian fluid laboratory.

On the surface of LZRRACER, there are two kinds of black and gray blocks. They are light, thin and penetrating, and feel rough. They are not as smooth as we imagine.

This is known as the world's lightest and strongest high-tech space age swimsuit. It is made of Speedo exclusive high-tech absorbent material LZRPulse. It is the high speed and high resistance technology with the least resistance.

Since its launch in early 2008, in less than 5 months after its launch, the magic swimsuit has helped European and American athletes break the world record more than 40 times and shocked world swimming circles.

Phelps, the famous American swimmer, once described the feeling of wearing LZRRACER - "putting it into the pool is like a burning knife passing the fine butter."

When Speedo launched the olive branch, when Speedo was launched, Speedo China tried to contact the Chinese swimming team. It even suggested that if athletes wear the fourth generation shark skin, even if the logo of Speedo is removed, it will be acceptable.

However, since the Chinese swimming team is one of the sports teams sponsored by Nike, the invitation has not been answered and supported by the China Swimming Association.

In fact, the technology of the world swimming teams is near the limit, and if the costume has magical effects, at least athletes can be given a shot of strong heart, so that they can believe that they have the help of heaven.

In June this year, the US swimming team wearing Speedo LZR RACER took the lead in the Olympic trials, and rewrote the world record 16 times in a month.

Shark skin is so amazing that the Chinese swimming team regrets it.

Although Nike launched the NikeSwift swimsuit, the Chinese swimming team began contacting Speedo in mid June to explore the possibility of wearing shark skin.

In fact, Nike's swimsuit has been trying to reduce joints.

In addition, the SPEEDv1 with the least dynamic resistance in the same kind of products is added to the swimsuit surface.

After consultations, Nike finally made a major concession and agreed that the Chinese swimming team should wear Speedo LZR RACER.

"The Chinese team does not change swimsuits, but rather allows swimmen to choose swimsuits suitable for them."

Zhang Yadong, head coach of China swimming team, said a few days ago that thanks to Nike's concession.

Nike has sacrificed part of its business interests for the Chinese swimming team.

From last month, some Chinese players began to try on the fourth generation of Speedo shark skin bathing suit.

But since the opening of the Olympic Games, Speedo LZR RACER is no longer able to tailor swimsuits for Chinese swimmers.

No one can enjoy the customized treatment. Some members of the Chinese swimming team who want to try can only choose to hire from the rental point of shark skin swimsuit manufacturing company. There are only a few models to choose from, and the problem of not fitting is common. This will also bring some trouble to the Chinese swimming team players.