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Original article: Dress to Impress: Rio Olympics the teams’ uniforms. ... 41 PHOTOS

Dress to Impress: Rio Olympics the teams’ uniforms.

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What the leading athletes in Rio will be wearing? Look at the photos to see how leading designers have combined fashion and national pride in the teams’ uniforms.

Brazil

The uniforms pattern mimics tropical birds in flight and lush fronds, a clear reference to one of the country’s greatest assets – its rainforests. Topped with boater hats, lace-up shoes and relaxed chinos for men, this is a uniform designed to have fun in.

Medical Services will wear Red during the Games to be easily spotted.
Technical Officials (Referees) will wear Blue.
The colour worn by most of the Games' teams (the operational areas) will be yellow.
If you need any information at the Games just look for the Green uniforms!

Canada

Designers from Dsquared2 styled the team’s uniforms.
The uniform features: unisex fishtail shirts, worn over sweatpants-¬cut trousers, with double-¬pocket jackets and the trademark Dsquared2 tailoring.

Cuba

The uniform designed by Christian Louboutin and Henri Tai, the former professional volleyball player, the Cuban team will be resplendent in jaunty red blazers, teamed with red high-top trainers.

Italy

Designed by famous Emporio Armani, the diffusion line of Giorgio Armani.
The EA7 Olympic collection is sleek and athletic, with a discreet embroidered Italian flag and the words Olympic Team on the chest.

USA

The uniform made of polo tops, white shirts and crisp trousers with addition of a flag-coloured belt. Designed by Ralph Lauren who is an American clothing designer best known for his sportswear line Polo Ralph Lauren, the centrepiece of his fashion empire.

South Korea

South Korean uniform has mosquito-repellent chemicals woven into the fabric to help guard against the Zika virus. This is the only designers attribute within the uniform. Everything else is pretty standard.

France

The French uniform was created by Lacoste, who opted for a laid-back look of ponchos and trench coats to help ward off any possible downpours. The French colours are discreetly hidden on the embroidered crocodile.

Great Britain

The uniform has been designed by Stella McCartney. It featured the Union Flag, opting instead for a specially designed coat of arms, which she has splashed heavily over everything.

Sweden

The Swedish team will be wearing uniform created by H&M. Faced with the tricky colour combination of yellow and blue, they have tried to soften the Sesame Street feel of the palette with a more flattering golden yellow over the traditional acidic tone.
The design looks really sporty, with graphic go-faster chevrons of colour, and a sweater proudly announcing Sweden’s medal tally to date - 696.

The Canadian Olympic kit has beat out the competition as one of the most stylish at this year’s games, in this fashion reporter’s opinion

USA

South Korean uniform

South Korean uniform has mosquito-repellent chemicals woven into the fabric to help guard against the Zika virus.

Aussie

Sweden The Swedish team will be wearing uniform created by H&M. Faced with the tricky colour combination of yellow and blue, they have tried to soften the Sesame Street feel of the palette with a more flattering golden yellow over the traditional acidic tone.

Designers from Dsquared2 styled the team’s uniforms.

Brazil - Technical Officials (Referees) will wear Blue

Green, yellow, blue and red. The Rio 2016 Organising Committee has launched the uniforms that staff and volunteers will be wearing at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio 2016.

If you need any information at the Games just look for the Green uniforms!

Technical Officials (Referees) will wear Blue.

Ukraine team

The French uniform was created by Lacoste, who opted for a laid-back look of ponchos and trench coats to help ward off any possible downpours.

The Cuban team will be resplendent in jaunty red blazers, teamed with red high-top trainers.

The uniform features: unisex fishtail shirts, worn over sweatpants-¬cut trousers, with double-¬pocket jackets and the trademark Dsquared2 tailoring.

Aussie team

Russian uniform – not among the best. Although impressive anyway.

Russian uniform for Olympics.

The uniform made of polo tops, white shirts and crisp trousers with addition of a flag-coloured belt.

Italy Designed by famous Emporio Armani, the diffusion line of Giorgio Armani. The EA7 Olympic collection is sleek and athletic.

Great Britain The uniform has been designed by Stella McCartney. It featured the Union Flag, opting instead for a specially designed coat of arms, which she has splashed heavily over everything.

Belorussia

Estonia

South Korea South Korean uniform has mosquito-repellent chemicals woven into the fabric to help guard against the Zika virus. This is the only designers attribute within the uniform. Everything else is pretty standard.

Kazakhstan

China

Russia

Czech Republic

Australia

Great Britain Designed by Stella McCartney. It featured the Union Flag, opting instead for a specially designed coat of arms, which she has splashed heavily over everything.

Brazil Medical Services will wear Red during the Games to be easily spotted

Italy The EA7 Olympic collection

Cuba

South Korea

US women basketball teams’ uniform

US women football teams’ uniform

US men basketball teams’ uniform

Australia

Russia

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More details: Emanuel ‘Tiny’ Yarbrough, the largest MMA fighter, passed away. ... 11 PHOTOS

Emanuel ‘Tiny’ Yarbrough, the largest MMA fighter, passed away.

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Emanuel Yarbrough, the largest MMA fighter in its history, passed away on Monday at the age of 51. At one time, he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest athlete.

Height 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Weight 600 lb (270 kg)

Style Sumo, wrestling, judo
Rank Brown Belt in judo

He was an American amateur sumo wrestler and mixed martial arts (MMA) competitor, judo, wrestling and played American football. Inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame March 2nd, 2013. International Sumo Wrestling’s Ambassador.

Sumo records.

• 1995 World Amateur Sumo Champion
• 1992 1st Sumo World Championships Open Division 2nd Place
• 1993 2nd Sumo World Championships Open Division 3rd Place
• 1994 3rd Sumo World Championships Open Division 2nd Place
• 1996 5th Sumo World Championships Open Division 2nd Place

Judo records.

• Second place, U.S. Nationals 1989

One time he weighed up to 882 lb (400 kg), holding the Guinness World Record for the heaviest living athlete.

He was the 1995 World Amateur Sumo Champion and is considered to be one of the most famous sumo wrestlers outside Japan. Yarbrough competed in amateur sumo which is very different from the professional sumo that is so popular in Japan.

From 1996 to 1997, Yarbrough competed in professional wrestling in Germany where he performed under a mask.
He took part in a sumo tournament against the entire staff of the promotion, being declared winner after beating everybody except August Smisl and Terminator Mastino. He later won another sumo tournament.

Yarbrough participated in the UFC in 1994, before the implementation of weight classes. He is the largest competitor in the promotion's history.

He faced karate master Keith Hackney in UFC 3. Yarbrough tossed Hackney out of the cage at the beginning but lost the fight after Hackney pounded him with scores of unanswered strikes just in 1:59.
For his victory Keith Hackney got the nickname "The Giant Killer".

Yarbrough never fought in the UFC again.
In 1998 he fought in Japan for the Shooto promotion. He faced Tatsuo Nakano, a former shoot-style pro wrestler who was much smaller than Yarbrough. It was there that Yarbrough scored the only victory of his pro career with an unusual submission that came by way of "smother" in 1:17.

On June 24, 1998 at Pride 3, at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan, Emmanuel Yarborough took on Daiju Takase.
Takase weighed in at 169 pounds while Yarborough tipped the was 600. For Takase it has been a MMA debut. Takase avoided engaging Yarbrough and earned a yellow card for inactivity, but a failed takedown got him positioned over Emanuel on the ground, which allowed him to hit him until the fight stopped. So Yarbrough lost in the second round by submission.

He participated in a 1997 Bollywood film Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi which features Bollywood action hero Akshay Kumar. Also ne appeared on several talk shows and in a commercial for Motorola. He has also appeared on the HBO drama Oz as an inmate named Clarence Seroy. Also he played himself in the German wrestling film Sumo Bruno.