Dodgy sporting haircuts
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Which is the maddest barnet of the bunch?
| Phillips Idowu's red dye |  3% |
| Beckham's corn rows |  10% |
| Andre Agassi's mullet | 3% |
| Charlton's comb-over | 7% |
| Don 'lightning strike' King | 3% |
| Gazza's peroxide blonde | 0% |
| Graham Gooch's moustache | 0% |
| Jason 'the pineapple' Lee | 7% |
| Andrea Moretti's chessboard | 10% |
| Keegan's perm | 10% |
| John McEnroe's untamed locks | 0% |
| Lasith Malinga | 0% |
| Taribo West's horns | 21% |
| Padraig Harrington's blonde centre-parting | 0% |
| The entire France 98 Romanian team | 24% |
Phillips Idowu was last seen in public beaming at a trackside television camera, telling the world: "I feel like Superman right now. I'm bulletproof." That was at the trials for the British Olympic track and field team in Birmingham 11 days ago. Yesterday the flying triple jumper was facing the cameras and the microphones at a Park Lane hotel ahead of the London Grand Prix, the pre-Olympic showpiece staged at Crystal Palace tomorrow night and on Saturday afternoon. He was sporting his usual array of facial adornments – tongue, lip, nose and eyebrow piercings – but wrapped in a polo shirt rather than a Superman cape. For that matter, Britain's leading hope for athletics gold in Beijing was not wearing regulation superhero knickers over tights, either. Not that he would have got them in any kind of a twist about his prospects of hopping, stepping and jumping to the top of the medal podium in China.
