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Sage Kotsenburg not at Closing Ceremony, still dresses up for it

Sochi Olympics Snowboard Men

United States’ Sage Kotsenburg celebrates after winning the men’s snowboard slopestyle final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Andy Wong

We’re not sure what we like more about this little story: The fact that slopestyle snowboard gold medalist Sage Kotsenburg dressed up for last night’s Closing Ceremony even though he wasn’t there, or the hashtag that came with the photo confirmation he tweeted out.

Kotsenburg broke out his official Team USA Closing Ceremony uniform for the occasion, showing his solidarity with his teammates. And you’ll see that hysterical hashtag in the photo below...

#SwagGameStrongerThanHulkHogansBicep...Fantastic. Nothing really more to say than that, right?

But Kotsenburg wasn’t quite done with his Closing Ceremony fun, tweeting another photo of him dressing up like supermodel Kate Upton.

That in turn drew a funny response from his U.S. snowboarding compadre and bronze medalist in snowboard cross, Alex Deibold:

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