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Zoe Williams

Tattoos? Parmesan? Five key questions every armchair Olympics enthusiast is asking

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A tattoo of Olympic rings on an arm lifting out of the water
A tattoo of Olympic rings on the arm of Danielle Hill of Ireland during the women's 100m backstroke. Photograph: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile/Getty Images

Is there a tattoo artist in the Olympic Village?

OK, I know this from giving blood: if you’re about to do anything in any way weird with your body – like push it to its farthest frontier, or take blood out of it – that’s not a great time to get a tattoo. So it would be natural to assume that the many athletes with five rings inked on their magnificent biceps, thighs, triceps etc did that before the games. Wrong: at the floating Olympic village in Tahiti, 10,000 miles away, there is a tattoo parlour on the ship. So the surfers aren’t worried at all about communicable disease, and I guess it could be worse: at least they’re not surfing in the Seine.

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