Riivo custom cycling shoes worn by Bobby Lea during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London
name: label: user
content: Lea, Bobby
label: maker
content: Harper Sports Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Pair of white Riivo brand leather and fabric cycling shoes custom made for Bobby Lea to use at the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Shoes were not actually worn in any Olympic events. Shoes feature two leather and Velcro straps across the vamp and a larger third strap that secures with both Velcro and a plastic ratcheting enclosure. Shoes have a black carbon fiber sole with three screw holes for cleats under the forefoot area and rubberized toe and heel pads. A non-removable thin red insole is inside each shoe. Yellow dimpled “gripper” material is sewn inside each hell. The brand name RIIVO is printed on the face of the ratcheting leather and Velcro strap, the plastic ratchet, and the outside carbon heel of the left and right respective shoes. The website, RIIVO.COM is printed on the inside carbon heel of the left and right respective shoes. The carbon sole has the text TRUE FULL CUSTOM/TFC on the outside edge of the left and right respective shoe.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 2012 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad were held in London, England with 204 countries, 5,992 men and 4,776 women athletes participating. With the inclusion of women’s boxing, these Games became the first with female competitors in every sport and the first at which each country entered, had a female representative. Women’s boxing debuted and mixed doubles in tennis was held for the first time since the 1924 Games. American Michael Phelps won his 22nd medal making him the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time. Every athlete to win a medal at these Games was drug tested and as of 2017, 31 medals had been rescinded due to doping. The United States won the medal count with 104.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Cycling
label: level of sport
content: Olympics
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0213.03
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0213.03
label: accession number
content: 2012.0213
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shoes, cycling
label: Object Name
content: cycling shoes
label: Object Name
content: cycling shoes
label: Object Name
content: cycling shoes, summer olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: carbon fiber (sole material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (sole material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (trime color)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (each shoe): 11 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 29.21 cm x 10.795 cm