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Those colorful pants worn by Norwegian curlers at last month’s Olympics were so popular that their Paralympic counterparts felt compelled to sport the same look. The problem was they couldn’t get any of the popular bright red, white and blue diamond-checkered trousers, so they found an alternative that was just as good — or bad, depending on perspective. “This is the leftovers because they sold out everything after one week all around the world,” Norway skip Rune Lorentsen said Monday. “There wasn’t so many to choose from, but these are OK?” That’s one way to put it. The AP
