See the U.S. Olympic Team’s Gymnastics Uniforms Through the Years

POV: you just snagged some Team USA merch from Skims, your plans for the next few weeks revolve around sports, and you’re schooling your group chat on the ins and outs of gymnastics scoring. The 2024 Paris Olympics are officially here, which means it’s time to stan the U.S. gymnastics team. And their glitzy outfits, naturally.

While the looks Olympic athletes wear might not seem like the most important thing ever, for the U.S. gymnastics team, they kinda are! Literal points get deducted if their leotards aren’t perfect, they’re custom-made for each athlete, and they take years to design. Basically, they’re the ultimate mix of style and functionality, and the designers who make them have been doing The Most since the 1930s.

For the past couple of years, GK Elite has made the leotards for Team USA, and dear reader, the company purchased around 90 million Swarovski crystals for their designs in the past year. “There’s a lot of research and development that goes into it,” Kelly McKeown, chief design officer for GK Elite, told Cosmopolitan back in 2016. “It’s something you don’t want to rush. If you want to use a new technique, if you want to experiment, then you have to wear-test it, you have to wash-test it, you have to make sure that it's not going to fail on the competition floor.”

Get ready to scroll through all the pics below to see how the U.S. gymnastics team's uniforms have evolved over the years!