By swag, we don’t mean swagger!
We mean the stuff that they’ve gotten for FREE!
Here’s a fun fact: each Olympian representing Team USA was gifted with over 100 items including clothing, sunglasses, hats, shoes and jewelry from Ralph Lauren, Nike, Oakley, P&G, Omega and O.C. Tanner.
Here are the perks of being a U.S. Olympic athlete:
Olympic Style
Oakley’s custom eyewear facility stocks more than 67,000 parts for all of Oakley’s products and Olympians can build their own sunglasses reflecting the colors of their home country with dozens of colors, styles, and lenses available.
Olympic Beauty
P&G keeps Olympians looking their best with beauty treatments from international experts flown into London for the duration of the games. Treatments available include professional haircuts and color, party styling, makeup and patriotic nail styling and facials! Over the course of the game, P&G will offer up 25,000 treatments keeping all of America’s favorite athletes looking their best as they perform their best.
Olympic Gold
While sometimes even the best Olympians don’t end up on the podium, they all can take home the gold with a commemorative 14K gold ring. O.C. Tanner, the designer and donor, of the rings for the U.S. Olympic Teams (below), presented each U.S. athlete their very own gold bling to recognize all the hard work they put in to make it to the Olympics. Athletes can personalize the ring with their name, add custom engraving to reflect their medal wins and upgrade their ring by adding diamonds or a special finish.
Wow!
So not only do they have the chance to go down in history, get sponsors, and be all over TV — they also get a bunch of free shizz to do it!
Must be nice!
But hey, it’s not like they didn’t put in the hard work!
