The Olympic rings tattoo has become ubiquitous at the Summer Games − visible on athletes competing in almost every sport. This is the inside story. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio ...

The phenomenon of Olympic rings tattoos has continued at Paris 2024 - AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand. Thom Gibbs. August 1, ... Canadian swimmer Victor Davis was Jacobs’ inspiration.

This is no joke, and the guy has the gold medals to prove the ink was worth the space.

A swimmer with an Olympic tattoo exercises during a swimming training session at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre at the 2020 Summer Olympics, ... and on the ankle of Canadian gymnast Shallon Olsen.

A tattoo of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games decorates the body of Joana Heidrich, of Switzerland, as she prepares to serve against Germany during a women's beach volleyball match, at the 2020 Summer ...

Ivan Girev, of the Russian Olympic Committee, prepares to start in his heat during the men's 200-meter freestyle at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 25, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.

Like a tattoo. A big, ol' chest tattoo. One that you cannot get done in just one appointment with the needler. “I still have a ways to go. I have two more sessions left,” Harnden said, over the phone, ...

Taboo in much of Tokyo, tattoos are everywhere at the Olympics. There’s the lion on British swimmer Adam Peaty’s shoulder. An inspirational message on the arm of Chinese 3-on-3 basketball ...

Taboo in much of Tokyo, tattoos are everywhere at the Olympics. There’s the lion on British swimmer Adam Peaty’s shoulder. An inspirational message on the arm of Chinese 3-on-3 basketball ...

Taboo in much of Tokyo, tattoos are everywhere at the Olympics. There’s the lion on British swimmer Adam Peaty’s shoulder. An inspirational message on the arm of Chinese 3-on-3 basketball ...

Clearly tattoos have become more common but the spread of the rings has a lot to do with good old-fashioned peer pressure. They will be everywhere in the village, and that gives unmarked athletes ...