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Norwegian Men's Curling Team Goes Pantsless, Blondie Says "Nyet" To Performing, And More: At Sochi

Curling is a weird sport—grown men sweeping ice to get a big heavy disc across a line? But we're all about it now that Norway's men's curling team is taking fashion risks and dropping trou.

Before the Games even started, the team caught flack for their admitted loud—but totally amazing—trousers. (The ones above are clearly inspired by Modrian.) But competing teams claim the bombastic slacks are "distracting" and potentially violate IOC  regulations. PolicyMic reports that international curling rules only require "all team members [to] wear identical uniforms and appropriate footwear when accessing the field of play for games or practice sessions."

Proving that, yes, Norwegians do have a sense of humor, the guys posed for a pantless picture in the Olympic village. Hey, if this became the standard uniform we might start caring about curling! (h/t: Out)


On twitter, Harry posted a photo of the offer by the Red Rocks Festival, which is being held in Sochi. On top of the contract she scrawled, "Pass – human rights."

From what is legible, Blondie was asked to perform a 45-minute set before some 25,000 people on the main Olympics stage on February 13. The sponsor for the set was Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia and Eastern Europe.

A price quote is printed, but Harry's handwriting blocks the exact amount.

— Debbie Harry/BLONDIE (@BlondieOfficial) February 7, 2014


But members of the U.S. luge team aren't thrilled about the spot—in fact they're "furious" about it. “They’re making fun of our sport for their cause and it doesn’t really make a lot of sense to me,” Team USA member Christian Niccum told The New York Times. "When we were kids I didn't get on the doubles sled thinking, 'oh, this is gay,'

Niccum later told Reuters "When did we become so sexual about everything." Seriously? Have you been frozen in a block of ice for the past 50 years?

Fellow luger Matthew Mortensen complained his sport is always the butt of gay jokes: "It’s never about football players taking a snap or whatever. We’ve heard all this stuff before."

At least one Olympic luger had a sense of humor about the whole thing: "We’re two dudes, laying on top of each other in spandex," Preston Griffall told the Times. "Of course people are going to make fun of it.”


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