The Best Olympic Hairstyles
This years Olympics has arguably been the most stylish well, it is being staged in London after all... There's been Stella's Team GB kit, a sea of neon trainers and catwalk-to-track nail art (courtesy of backstage manicurist Sophy Robson).
Besides watching the sports intently (of course), we've also been kept busy checking out the various hairstyles these Olympic athletes deem exercise-appropriate.
Cue plenty of braids; functional accessories used in ingenious ways; more hair gel than most of us would wear in a lifetime (and that's just the synchronised swimmers); oh, and the Olympic rings shaved into the side of Jamaican hurdler Nickiesha Wilson's hair. Okay, the latter two may not make it onto our hair repertoire for the gym, but the rest just might...
Laura Trott, British Track Cyclist, wears pigtails while riding
Carolina Del Pilar Costagrande, Italian Volleyball player, gets experimental with her ponytail and hair clips
Venus Williams, Tennis player from the USA, with patriotic braids
Marta Pihan Kulesza, Gymnast from Poland, with tri-colour hair
Sanya Richards Ross, USA Athlete, pairs a halo braid with wavy lengths for an eye-catching half up-do
Irina Karpova, Heptathlete from Kazakhstan, ties her hair back with a criss-cross pattern of white elastic bands
Kim Crow, Australian Rower, wears patriotic ribbon to decorate her plaited ponytail
Dani King, British Track Cyclist, with braided pigtails
Nickiesha Wilson, Hurdler from Jamaica, with the Olympic ring design shaved into her short hair
April Ross, USA Volleyball player (pictured with Jennifer Kessy), sports a plaited ponytail and visor
Sally Pearson, Australian Athlete, works a French braid into a ponytail
Ballestero Carbonell and Andrea Fuentes Fache, Spanish Synchronised Swimmers, work wet-look hair with tons of gelatin (strange, but true)
Chantae McMillan, USA Heptathlete, keeps the hair off her face with a red elasticated hair band and a simple ponytail
Gesa Felicitas Krause, German Steeplechaser, twists and pins sections of her hair back into a ponytail
Misty May-Treanor, USA Beach Volleyball player, channels Blake Lively with a wispy fishtail braid
Sydney Leroux, USA Football player, keeps her hair out of her face with a purple hair band.
Dani King, British Track Cyclist, with a messy bun
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