Rate each brands 2023 uniforms

Adidas worst ever, nothing classic here. Athletes look like clowns. No class in design.

*Edit: It seems the women are wearing a dark green shade of the nike uniform. I wonder how the shorts look- probably stunning!

It also seems that the world champions from Eugene are getting black/ white and gold nike kits. Will be cool seeing ingy back in regular kit along with the other nike athletes.

On second thoughts the Adidas one is only cool from up close- tho not as close as one needs to get to the basics kit- from far off it just looks like a ig dark sketchy mess.

So expect to see a lot of nike sticking out very well this year!

potentially also they get to choose their own colours (nike)? On the Boston preview sheet the top men all have yellow singlets yet Rai Benjamin has been wearing a blue one- Imagine if each athlete gets to choose their own colour- how much that would help show the individuality to each of the athletes and not just putting blue speed suits on each one and firing and hiring athletes without average fans realising due tot he anonymity that comes with uniformity.

pretty bad move of basics to place the line, the only bit of detail on the shirt, right where most athletes will put their bib. Adidas finally learnt this year not to put the focus on the centre of the singlet.

Desisa Lelisa is the only one wearing yellow singlet. It's probably because he's won the Boston marathon. On the women's side World Champ Gotytom Gebreslase is going to wear the back and gold "gold medalist" kit.

yeah so I saw Gotytom Gebreslase got the gold one but it seems strange to give an athlete a specific colour bc of one race, does that mean he has to return it after this race and get a regular blue one?

I'm sure he can keep the yellow kit. Desisa is just going to wear the blue kit on other races. GG is probably going to wear the gold medalist kit the whole season.

ye that would make sense... I wonder what the deal was with stewey wearing the yellow jersey at the end of '21

Yeah, it was Stewy and Elaine Thompson who wore the yellow/black kit. They started wearing it in Prefontaine Classic if I remember correctly. Don't remember the reason behind it.

yup, correct

I like the Asics ones until you put a number on, and then its hard to see the coolness. They really need to figure out what will look good, on TV, with a number covering most of the racing vest. Its hard to believe that they hadn't taken that into consideration.

Adidas did the same thing with the GB singlets in their last year making them for Britain. All the design was behind the number. Arg. they look great ot wear for training however.

I don't mind Nike's "micro stripes" from 2022, but it looks like that is going away for 2023 for some athletes. The vests taht Fauble and mantz wore today were... slightly odd, and slightly off really. Strange choice aesthetically.

Adidas' kits: um, they look cool close up, but from far away they're really, really dark and messy looking. But I appreciate that Adidas is using patterns that we've not seen before and, like their leopard print womens' bottoms from last year, they're willing to push the envelope. And, from a TV perspective, I wish that you didn't put dark skinned men in very dark colored racing kits. Its hard to see them, and to differentiate in a pack on TV or on a computer screen. As a fan who likes watching running to keep and eye on all the different races in the pack, please make it easy for me to pick runners out.

Like the under armour kit. Very 2020's in colors and patterns, but easy to pick out visually. Thats a very good thing.

The adidas uniforms work…. If you are very very good. For example, they looked pretty darn good in the late stages of the men’s race today.

man i'm pretty disappointed to see nike's kits this year. Their 2021-22 kits from the countries down to the blue/teal pro elite were 10/10. I mean how do you beat the current USA singlet. new kit design reminds me of a nickelodeon graphic

adidas colors were funky at first to me but it kinda works. kind of wild they went graphic top and graphic shorts

new NN kit is pretty fire though, glad they didn't go with the template of the nike pro elite for '23

u like the nike teal kit? it looked way to plain and boring

Do we have any pictures of lelisa desisa?

These are from AP. I hope these links work. Here's Desisa, NN Running team, Rosa Associati etc.

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Rosa looking fire- NN always stands out, tho I wonder why salpeters shorts are so much darker than all the other NN ones.

The lelisa special colour way shows Nike are open to producing different colour singlets for different athletes which is exciting!

He won the 5K at Eugene so will still get the champion kit