Oakleys Coolest Glasses That They Lost Forever #oakley #interesting #olympics #sports #glasses

How did these glasses go from one of the coolest pieces of sports tech ever created to lost forever? You see in 2000 Oakley had one goal to get an athlete at the Olympics to wear a pair of their sunglasses But they ran into two problems. First, logos are banned on the Olympic stage. Second, any normal pair of sunglasses would just fly off the athlete's face. So they went to their design lab called Moonbase One where engineers are told to ignore all constraints. And eventually, they came up with the Oakley Over the Tops, a pair of sunglasses so bold and recognizable that they didn't even need a logo.

And they wouldn't fall off the face. So they packed bags of them and flew to the Sydney Olympics. And after days of searching, they finally found an athlete willing to wear them, Otto Bolden. He was hesitant at first, but agreed to wear them in the relay. His team didn't even win the race but when he put them on they instantly went viral. Oakley started selling them for $200 and every celebrity wanted a

pair. They were even in Spy Kids but eventually the mold broke which means pair. They were even in Spy Kids but eventually the mold broke which means Oakley could never make them again.