Ryan Gosling, mullets and golden grills: all the latest in Olympics fashion – in pictures
While Hollywood A-listers dress up and dress down, the real stars of the Games continue to dazzle with their tatts, teeth and questionable hair choices
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Method dressing is very much in the ether and Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg clearly understood the brief. The duo attended the team dressage final at the Château de Versailles wearing equestrian garb. They were later spotted out on the town eating snails, although carrots and apples were all the horses were fed.
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Gen Z has been hailing Princess Anne a style icon of late, exemplified neatly by her looks at this Olympics, visiting Team GB wearing a bucket hat and sporty kicks and presenting rowing medals while wearing very of-the-moment wraparound shades. Former footballer Megan Rapinoe also seemed to have been inspired, wearing a regal silky scarf to attend the gymnastics. Her T-shirt read ‘Skin of the Night. Club Lust’ and featured a depiction of Michelangelo’s Pietà.
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Teams including France, pictured here, have been competing in the artistic swimming – formerly known as synchronised swimming – at the Aquatics Centre north of Paris. When synchro was introduced at the 1984 Olympics, the New York Times declared it one of the new Olympic ‘glamour events’. A focus on the bedazzled costumes and aesthetics, according to Time, cemented ‘the idea that the world of competitive synchro was a feminine, performative domain’. This year, for the first time, men were allowed to compete, although none did. But watch this space for LA 2028.
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Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade won gold in spectacular fashion in the women’s floor exercise artistic gymnastics. Her makeup to claim her medal was fittingly creative and bold. TikTok has already seen tutorials on how to get her look from the all-around final – you can bet this look is close behind.
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First Kieran Reilly won silver in freestyle BMX for Team GB with a mullet in tow, then Louie Hinchliffe competed in the men’s 100m accompanied by his. The Chris Waddle favourite has been having a style moment, so it was only a matter of time before young Olympians were seen sporting the much-maligned look.
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With a cap that seemed to say, ‘Yes we CAN (get out of this bunker)’ and other golf-related affirmations, the Canadian golf team put in a convincing case for one of the most grail-worthy bits of kits at the Olympics. It would be no surprise to see these striking baseball caps being resold online and worn with pride way beyond the course, on the outskirts of Versailles, where this year’s golf has been finding its feet.
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Ukrainian hurdler Anna Ryzhykova reportedly stopped training when Russia invaded her country: ‘At that moment, I couldn’t think anything about sport,’ she told the Washington Post. ‘Then I understood the war won’t end tomorrow or next week … Some of my teammates, some of my friends, told me I should continue my sports career. I understood we could speak and do interviews. We could talk about war, and people should know they can help us and support us.’ She has made a habit of wearing the colours of her homeland in her hair since.
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One of eight Palestinian athletes at the Paris Olympics, swimmer Valerie Tarazi celebrates achieving a personal best with the Palestinian flag painted on her arm. Aptly, she had been the team’s flag-bearer at the opening ceremony. ‘I’m grateful for the opportunity to show the world that Palestine is strong and resilient,’ she said on Instagram.
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‘Gold and gold, it went well,’ US gymnast Jordan Chiles told GQ of the grills she wore to collect her gold medal in the women’s artistic gymnastics team final. ‘I was like, “You know what, I’m gonna stand on the podium with that gold medal around my neck, and I’m gonna have my grills in, and see what people say.”’ Chiles eschewed the usual Olympics ring design, though. ‘I want this to be something that I can wear for the rest of my life, not just like a once-in-a-lifetime thing,’ she said.
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The stands at the Olympics have been filled with Hollywood bigwigs. Natalie Portman looked statesmanlike to attend the women’s gymnastics, as if she had kept hold of one of her old Jackie Kennedy outfits. But a pair of boxfresh white trainers, just out of shot, helped to steer the look away from the White House and into the Bercy Arena.
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Attending with his partner Eva Mendes, Barbie star Ryan Gosling looked every inch ‘Ken goes to the Olympics’ to attend the dressage. He was wearing a sporty vest underneath a plaid shirt and an on-the-nose Olympics baseball cap, the popped collar giving the look an all-American preppyness.
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She had her nails painted with the stars and stripes for the opening ceremony and a brightly coloured jewelled design for her first racing appearance. Continuing her journey on Sunday, Sha’Carri Richardson won silver in the 100m sprint while sporting this marbled look. She is a pioneer of the Olympics nails phenomena that has seen statement nails across track, field and arena.
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Another day, another Hollywood great in the stands. Sharon Stone wore a floral co-ord to attend the men’s tennis final between Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Carlos Alcaraz of Spain. What could have looked safe and traditional on some looked edgy and fun on the Basic Instinct star – the sunnies and slicked-back hair helped.
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More nails, this time decorated with lightning bolts, crosses and stars on US sprinter Noah Lyles as he celebrated winning the dramatic men’s 100m final at Stade de France. His nails had read ‘Icon’ at a press conference earlier on in the games – but there was no need for such slogans this time around, as his running did the talking.
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Nobody could accuse Snoop Dogg – the US rapper, wine entrepreneur and special correspondent for US broadcaster NBC – of being underenthused by the Olympics. Here, continuing on a method dressing path, he wore a patriotic tracksuit to attend the men’s 100m final at which Noah Lyles won gold for the USA.
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While tattoos of the Olympic rings are two a penny at the Games, Polish sprinter Ewa Swoboda (who has a Barbie made in her image) bucks the trend with ink depicting cats, dogs, leaves, roses and the sun. ‘They give me an extra kick,’ she once said. Sadly it wasn’t enough to help her through to the final of the 100m.
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Basketball player Worthy de Jong had a blue tulip painted over his bleach-blond buzz cut for the Netherlands’ game against Lithuania.
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More hair creativity came from Brazil’s Alison dos Santos. ‘I’m too tall for lane two,’ he told the BBC after the 400m hurdles heat, but it didn’t stop him getting through to the next round. His blond-dyed-lilac look added a bit of levity to a serious race.
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The team Canada Lululemon kit went down particularly well in the haul videos of purchases that athletes posted online showing themselves unboxing their kits. Here, Ethan Katzberg models his with aplomb while he receives the gold medal for the men’s hammer throw at Stade de France.
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