
The Summer Olympics are nothing if not an amalgam of highs and lows for the world’s best athletes. They weather wins and wipeouts, pride and pain, shattered records and shattered bones. As Team USA Olympians and Paralympians take the stage in Paris in the coming weeks, medical staff will be there to support every feat and fall—in style.
For the first time, the more than 250 health care professionals who form the Team USA Medical Team have a uniform. Figs, a direct-to-consumer medical apparel brand—and the first company led by two female cofounders to go public—partnered with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) to break another barrier.