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Mali's female basketball team lost all their games at the Olympics but earned top style marks for their "electric shock" Don King-style hairdos. The Olympic basketball venue is the place to be seen and Chinese fashionistas looking for hairstyling tips from the cream of the world's basketballers have myriad options.
"Mali looked cool," said 17-year-old student Liu Qian of the players' frizzy dreadlock-styles, set off by a shock of midnight blue or lime green, the American boxing promoter would have been proud of.
Yao Ming and the clean-cut China players, in contrast, are unlikely to trouble the barbers of Beijing for more than a short back and sides, scoring poorly for "artistic impression".
But world champions Spain are sending female fans weak at the knees with their designer stubble and tousled long locks.
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