DeeDee Trotter
American sprinter DeeDee Trotter took her game face to another level Saturday night.
She plans to raise the bar in Sunday's 400-meter final.
"There's an explosion on my face," she says. "Tomorrow I am bringing it bigger, better."
Trotter paints patriotic designs next to her right eye before she competes. In Saturday's semifinals she had a burst of red, white and blue and said it makes her tougher.
"I keep saying it's like that Mike Tyson-type thing. You know when he came back with the tat, he was crazy, crazy maniac," Trotter says. "He just got in there and did whatever it took, and that's the attitude I'm tying to bring tomorrow. My glitter face just showed that: war paint time, time to get the grind on." [Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/GLITTER-FACE-3762842.php#ixzz23oNfqIDV]
American sprinter DeeDee Trotter took her game face to another level Saturday night.
She plans to raise the bar in Sunday's 400-meter final.
"There's an explosion on my face," she says. "Tomorrow I am bringing it bigger, better."
Trotter paints patriotic designs next to her right eye before she competes. In Saturday's semifinals she had a burst of red, white and blue and said it makes her tougher.
"I keep saying it's like that Mike Tyson-type thing. You know when he came back with the tat, he was crazy, crazy maniac," Trotter says. "He just got in there and did whatever it took, and that's the attitude I'm tying to bring tomorrow. My glitter face just showed that: war paint time, time to get the grind on."
S' Deedee Trotter reacts during the women's 400m heats competition.
U.S. runners Sanya Richards-Ross and DeeDee Trotter won their 400-meter qualifying races Friday with relative ease — and in stylish fashion.
Richards-Ross wore an all-red combination, with her fingernails painted different versions of red, white and blue.
Trotter had a small American flag painted next to her right eye — complete with glitter and sparkling jewels.
“This is a mild version of what you’ll get in the finals,” Trotter says. “This is just the beginning. Tomorrow it’ll be a little more dramatic, right ’til we get to the war paint to where it’s really on to get there and get that grind on.”
Trotter raced in heavy rain at Olympic Stadium. And no surprise, she was prepared for it. Trotter’s face paint was waterproof.
“It’s sweatproof, too,” she says.
Richards-Ross has more outfits planned for Saturday and beyond.
“We have so many different options in our kit now, so I feel it’s cool to be able to wear different outfits through the rounds,” she says. “This is first-round look. I’ll have something else on tomorrow.”
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