Sport: Come as You Are

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At the opening ceremonies, that lovely Olympic parade, dress may be formal or informal, and even ceremonial, beret to burnoose. For the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid, the American athletes came as Western ranch hands in ten-gallon hats. Next summer in Los Angeles, they will come as athletes. After a public vote, or at least a poll of department-store shoppers, the U.S. Olympic Committee elected last week to introduce the 1984 team in sweats and visors, baggy but bright. Some 700 athletes and coaches will be supplied 35 mix-and-match garments by Levi Strauss & Co. The warmup suits, titled the "active" ensemble, won out over the "classic" (white slacks or skirts with red blazers) and the "Western" (more cowboy suits). The "active" drew about half of the 2 million votes.