Olympic flair on display around the Beijing Games

Whether it’s an earring that looks like a curling stone or a country's flag painted onto fingernails, Olympic flair is being displayed by athletes and others in a variety of ways at the Beijing Games.

It’s not always easy to spot, but the accessorizing is popping up at venues around the Games. Look closely to see necklaces with Olympic rings, messages written on hands with markers and even tattoos. One South Korean curler had mascot Bing Dwen Dwen – perhaps the breakout star of the Games – painted onto a nail. A Canadian snowboarder wore a mouth guard with a maple leaf.

The flair being displayed isn’t always Olympic-related, and it’s not always by athletes. At the women’s halfpipe finals, a volunteer was spotted sporting a rubber duck on the top of his helmet.

Japan's Satsuki Fujisawa runs her fingers through her hair and a message to herself written on her hand "I'm a good curler. I have confidence. Let's have fun!" during a women's curling match against China at the Beijing Winter Olympics Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Canada's Elizabeth Hosking reacts during the women's halfpipe finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

United States' Rebecca Hamilton holds a curling broom with a tattoo of the Olympics Rings during a women's curling match against the Russian Olympic Committee at the Beijing Winter Olympics Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Track officials pour water on the track during the short track speedskating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

South Korea's Kim Kyeong-ae has Bing Dwen Dwen, the Olympics mascot, on her nails during a women's curling match against Britain at the Beijing Winter Olympics Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

A shell casing is ejected during biathlon target shooting at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

China's Qiu Leng holds up her hands with words of encouragement during the women's halfpipe finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

An Olympic ice maker holds a pebble head covered with water droplets used for making the curling sheet ice surface during a women's round robin curling match at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Makena Hodgson, of Canada, holds the handle prior to the luge women's singles run 3 at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Brendan Corey of Australia, prepares for his quarterfinal of the men's 1,000-meter during the short track speedskating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Denmark's Mathilde Halse wears the Olympics Rings necklace during a women's curling match against Japan at the Beijing Winter Olympics Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha, of Canada, perform their routine in the ice dance competition during figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov, of the Russian Olympic Committee, perform their routine in the ice dance competition during figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Kaillie Humphries, of United States, starts women's monobob heat 1 at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Zuzana Paulova, of the Czech Republic, wears curling stone earrings during the mixed doubles curling match against the United States at the Beijing Winter Olympics Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Gold medalist Birk Ruud of Norway celebrates during the medal ceremony for the men's freestyle skiing big air at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

A volunteer fashions a rubber duck on the top of his helmet during the women's halfpipe finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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