Know what these Winter Olympics need? More dinosaurs!

Know what these Winter Olympics need? More dinosaurs!

The Olympics may not have started yet, but already the gold medal for the Weirdest Crossover Advertising Event goes to…Jurassic World: Dominion.

To promote both the Games and the movie, which will hit theaters June 10, Universal Pictures and NBC Sports are releasing three ads featuring top-notch U.S. Olympians in their element. Along with, well, dinosaurs.

[For the buzziest news from Beijing, check out Medal Heist, Currently's Olympics blog]

The first ad shows skier Mikaela Shiffrin racing down a mountain to flee a velociraptor (only to meet something worse):

The second features figure skater Nathan Chen just minding his own business and practicing his routine on a frozen Alpine lake before coming face to face with a pack of Parasaurolophus.

Last but not least, watch snowboarder Shaun White do flips through the sky before realizing that something huge is watching him:

Once you get over the sheer randomness of the concept, it turns out the combination of world-class athletes and terrifying/awe-inspiring dinosaurs is actually pretty cool.

Pauline Vu