Remember the big outrage after it was learned that Team USA’s uniforms for the 2012 Summer Olympics were made in China? Obama pounded the desk, through a faux tantrum and proclaimed never again will Team USA Olympic uniforms be made outside this country. Well, that was just yet another lie to add to Obama’s long list of them. Team USA snowboarders’ uniforms for the February 2014 Sochi games are foreign-made too. Burton Snowboards, a Vermont company is responsible for the uniforms. I shouldn’t be surprised anything from Vermont is anti-American.
“To achieve this level of performance and function, Burton turned to its best, long-standing and most trusted technical partners around the world to produce the uniforms, to ensure that our high technical and design standards were met,” Burton Snowboards said in materials obtained by FoxNews.com. “For example, the original quilt was sourced in the U.S. and brought back to Vermont to be deconstructed and reconstructed for jacket fabrication with Vermont-based designers.”
The quilt was then sent to Japan for final technical fabrication, company officials said.
“The fabric of the competition fleece was woven in Italy, and the technical and waterproof corduroy pant fabric was developed in Taiwan and sewn in Vietnam,” the statement continued. “Next, we turned to our longstanding, trusted vendors in China to produce several of the accessories.”