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U.S. Olympic Team

Release year:2008
Category:Main campaign
Collections:Main Campaign
Times published:1
Printed tagline:got milk?

Notes

Exact Sports Illustrated carrier recovered: Jul. 28, 2008 Olympic Preview, on newsstands Jul. 23. Contemporary reporting specifically names the Team USA Milk Mustache ad.

Main image

Original 2008 two-page Team USA spread — 'Stars need stripes.'

Physical two-page spread photographed open. This preserves the authentic period layout and exact 'Stars need stripes.' ad.

Credits

Photographer / credited image source:Timothy White
Campaign / production note:2008 Summer Olympics
How certain the credit is:A — agency-side archive metadata

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Variants of this ad (1)

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U.S. Olympic Team — horizontal version
Year:2008
Version type:Ad version
Difference:A wide version showing the whole group in white against the flag.
Notes:From MilkPEP’s trade site milkdelivers.org, as kept by the Internet Archive. The date is that of the file on the site.

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Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
Publication unresolved2008Ad version

Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
Sports IllustratedJul 28, 2008 — Olympic Preview (on newsstands Jul 23) find this issueTwo-page magazine print spreadsourceThe Honolulu Advertiser reported on Jul. 23, 2008 that the U.S. Olympians Got Milk? ad 'hits newsstands today in Sports Illustrated.' The Lantern independently described the ad in the same week. Sports Illustrated's own cover archive identifies the Olympic Preview weekly issue as Jul. 28, 2008. The cover date is Jul. 28; Jul. 23 was the newsstand date.