41 Pictures That Show How Much Team USA's Olympic Uniforms Have Changed

You just purchased a "TEAM USA" t-shirt on Etsy, your plans for the next few weeks revolve around sports, and you're suddenly an expert on the ins and outs of gymnastics score keeping. In other words: the 2021 Tokyo Olympics have finally arrived (after a year-long delay!) and the time has come to stan the U.S. gymnastics team. And also their outfits, naturally.

While the outfits 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 designed 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 back in the 1940s.

This year's leotards are from GK Elite, and feature 7,600 Swarovski crystals 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 to check out all the different designs that the U.S. gymnastics team has worn through the years!