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...
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Laura Trott, British Track Cyclist, wears pigtails while riding
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Carolina Del Pilar Costagrande, Italian Volleyball player, gets experimental with her ponytail and hair clips
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Venus Williams, Tennis player from the USA, with patriotic braids
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Marta Pihan Kulesza, Gymnast from Poland, with tri-colour hair
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Sanya Richards Ross, USA Athlete, pairs a halo braid with wavy lengths for an eye-catching half up-do
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Irina Karpova, Heptathlete from Kazakhstan, ties her hair back with a criss-cross pattern of white elastic bands
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Kim Crow, Australian Rower, wears patriotic ribbon to decorate her plaited ponytail
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Dani King, British Track Cyclist, with braided pigtails
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Nickiesha Wilson, Hurdler from Jamaica, with the Olympic ring design shaved into her short hair
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April Ross, USA Volleyball player (pictured with Jennifer Kessy), sports a plaited ponytail and visor
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Sally Pearson, Australian Athlete, works a French braid into a ponytail
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Ballestero Carbonell and Andrea Fuentes Fache, Spanish Synchronised Swimmers, work wet-look hair with tons of gelatin (strange, but true)
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Chantae McMillan, USA Heptathlete, keeps the hair off her face with a red elasticated hair band and a simple ponytail
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Gesa Felicitas Krause, German Steeplechaser, twists and pins sections of her hair back into a ponytail