- Reaction score
- 3,949
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...but not EXACTLY like the Roundel - see attached. More, from the Canadian Press (highlights mine):
From psychedelic to simplistic - and, perhaps, a little too familiar.
The uniforms that Canadian athletes will wear during the 2010 Olympics were unveiled Thursday, featuring plain, old-fashioned designs that reach into Canada's past, which will no doubt be seen as a welcome departure from the bizarre designs worn last year in Beijing.
But one of the new logos was prompting some decidedly non-Olympic comparisons, with Opposition MPs in Ottawa suggesting it smacks of a Conservative conspiracy and others noting similarities to an iconic Canadian military symbol.
The logo in question appears on several shirts and sweatshirts in the Hudson Bay Co.'s Team Canada line, with a thick black letter C surrounding a red maple leaf in front of a white background.
At first glance, the logo looks remarkably similar to the Royal Canadian Air Force's historic emblem, still used by the air force today, which features a dark blue circle around a maple leaf.
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As for the air force logo, (Suzanne Timmins, the Hudson Bay Co.'s fashion director) acknowledged the Olympic graphic is similar.
She insisted it was strictly a coincidence, but they were close enough that lawyers for the company and the air force sat down to talk about the resemblance. In the end, they decided the Olympic uniform logo was different enough that it could be used.