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See how much Team USA's gymnastics uniforms have changed over the years

So much red, white, and blue.

Mehera Bonner
Charles Manning
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See how much Team USA's gymnastics uniforms have changed over the years

So much red, white, and blue.

Mehera Bonner
Charles Manning
Style Director
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have finally arrived (after a yearlong delay!) and the time has come cheer on . And also their 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! 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 so since back in the 1930s.

This year's leotards are from GK Elite, each. "There's a lot of research and development that goes into it," Kelly McKeown, the 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."

Click through all the photos to how the U.S. gymnastics team's uniforms have evolved over the years!