Post by sherlew99 on Jan 7, 2014 11:01:33 GMT -6
Behold the awe-inspiring beauty of the Canadian skeleton team’s helmets
By Jay Busbee
All right, this is good stuff. Behold the helmet of Canadian skeletoner Sarah Reid. It's one of the high-concept helmets for four members of the Canadian skeleton contingent, and you'll see plenty of them next month in Sochi.
"I had been wanting to get my helmet painted for quite a while, and originally wanted an image that I found off the Internet of a girl’s face that was half normal, half skull," Reid told Canada's official Olympic website, thereby assuring that she will be metalheads' favorite Olympian. When an artist informed her that a symmetrical look would be better, she went with a "Day of the Dead" approach.
By Jay Busbee
All right, this is good stuff. Behold the helmet of Canadian skeletoner Sarah Reid. It's one of the high-concept helmets for four members of the Canadian skeleton contingent, and you'll see plenty of them next month in Sochi.
"I had been wanting to get my helmet painted for quite a while, and originally wanted an image that I found off the Internet of a girl’s face that was half normal, half skull," Reid told Canada's official Olympic website, thereby assuring that she will be metalheads' favorite Olympian. When an artist informed her that a symmetrical look would be better, she went with a "Day of the Dead" approach.
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