Team USA Olympians and Paralympians will be sporting Nike apparel on the winner’s podium at the Beijing Winter Olympics, but the company is staying mum on where the outfits are manufactured.
the medal stand uniforms, which include light-blue hooded jackets and dark blue pants. The jackets have a Paralympic or Olympic patch on the left side, a Nike Swoosh on the right, and a vertical American flag and "USA" on the back.Nike has promoted its use of recycled and sustainable materials to make the outfits, but won’t say where they were made. Multiple requests by Fox News Digital inquiring where the outfits are being manufactured went unreturned.
But it doesn’t appear Nike has similarly brought the manufacturing home for Team USA, or there likely would have been a PR blitz to announce as much. The company instead has focused on the versatility of the uniforms that will be worn by some athletes with physical disabilities. Nike has come under fire for its operations in China over the communist country’s mass imprisonment of its Uyghur population and other human rights abuses.
Steel pointed to the "human rights abuses and atrocities" occurring right now under Chinese President Xi – such as forced sterilization, "labor camps and murder" of Uyghur and other Muslim minority groups – and cited the Biden administration’s diplomatic boycott of the Games. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS
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