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Courtesy of Minx NailsAna Dragovic, Vogue

The length of a fingertip can mean the difference between silver and gold for an Olympic athlete, so it's no wonder that nails are playing a starring role at the London Games, with everyone from medal winners Venus Williams and Sanya Richards-Ross to Missy Franklin sporting patriotic flag-print manicures.

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To ensure that their nails remain a matter of national pride, the pros at Minx have enlisted their official U.K. distributor, Sweet Squared, who have set up strategic outposts at Olympic venues throughout London. There, athletes can choose from any of the 204 national flag appliqués they've designed for the
occasion-then sit for a manicure with one of their skilled technicians. The decals are virtually chip-proof and last up to 14 days, making them nearly as indomitable as their Olympic counterparts. U.S. volleyball champion Misty May-Treanor has already stopped by for a set of Stars & Stripes, while British

Courtesy of Tyson ChandlerVogue

Tonight the undefeated U.S. men's basketball team (currently 4-0) takes on Argentina. Seven-foot-one-tall star center and first-time Olympian Tyson Chandler talks to us about his London experience.

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This is your first trip to the Olympic Games and your first time in London-any other major firsts?
I took the tube a few days ago, and it was my first time ever on a subway. It was pretty intense. It didn't matter how many people were jammed into one car, when it got to another station, more people would just push their way in, and jockey for a spot. It was kind of surreal. People would sort of look sideways at me since I am so tall, but then they would just go back to trying to grab a space on the train.

Where were you headed?
Since I had one of my rare days off without a game or full day of practice, a group of us, including my wife, Kimberly, were heading to the stores in East London on a recommendation to go

Lynn Yaeger, Vogue

Psst! Hey, you with the bulging beach bag! News flash-Fifty Shades of Grey is not about Belstaff coats! Unbroken does not concern Cartier clasps! Clearly you can't be trusted to select your own fashion-worthy summer reading, tomes that will properly prepare you for the season ahead-looks, if you will, informed by books.

To help you meet these challenges, and provide you with edifying reading material as you ascend ferry and jitney, trolley train and private plane, above is our guide to summer reading for the fall collections.

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In honor of the upcoming summer games, we caught up with eight former U.S. Olympic champions. In this series, they share their fondest memories of everything it took to win the gold.

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I wanted to be victorious at the 1988 Seoul games. I'd been so disappointed with my performance in Los Angeles in 1984, when I lost the heptathlon gold by five points to Glynis Nunn of Australia. My left hamstring was injured and heavily bandaged for all of my competitors to see. I let my mindset get the best of me. I went home with the silver. In 1988 I had tendonitis in my knee, but I didn't let on so as not to give anyone else a mental boost.

The starting event of the heptathlon's seven was the hurdles. All of the sudden, Sabine John, of then-East Germany, appeared on the warm-up field. I hadn't seen her at a competition since the 1986 Goodwill Games (where I came in first and took the world record from her) and thought she had

Courtesy of Tony Duffyas told to Florence Kane, Vogue

In honor of the upcoming summer games, we caught up with eight former U.S. Olympic champions. In this series, they share their fondest memories of everything it took to win the gold.

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I'd had short hair my whole life. It was more practical for skating. I was always trying to find somebody who'd give me a stylish cut other than that Dutch bowl. (Once I went to a salon in London while I was touring and had my hair cut by this gentleman who'd cut Julie Andrews's hair. I was a big fan of hers. He did it so it was an inch long all the way around and I remember going outside and just crying.) For a couple of years I'd tried to get an appointment with this adorable, wonderful hairstylist, [Yusuke] Suga. Before the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, my father called the salon manager and asked if Suga could cut my hair. Suga was brilliant, a master at the precision cut, and, as it turned out, a huge fan of figure

With the summer Olympic games going full throttle, fashion's obsession with sport has reached a fever pitch. Hollywood, however, has always been captivated by the daring physical feats and striking images that come along with athletic competitions. In the process, film has given us some of the best-dressed players on the field. Here, we call out the stylish sportswomen who broke the mold, broke a sweat, and looked great doing it.

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Courtesy of AFPas told to Florence Kane, Vogue

In honor of the upcoming summer games, we caught up with eight former U.S. Olympic champions. In this series, they share their fondest memories of everything it took to win the gold.

The summer Olympics of 1976 were the first games I can remember. I was eight years old and glued to the television set watching this girl, Nadia Comaneci, from a country I'd never heard of, Romania, doing incredible things with her body. It clicked for me. "That's it," I thought. "That's what I want to do." Gymnastics. My mother found a class for me at the university near our town, Fairmont, West Virginia.

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One of the coaches there saw potential in me and, so that I could get more personal attention, opened a little gym in a cleaned-out garage. It's crazy to think that that's where it all began and, not so long after, I made it to the elite level. I was at a competition in Reno, Nevada in 1982 and Bela

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In honor of the upcoming summer games, we caught up with eight former U.S. Olympic champions. In this series, they share their fondest memories of everything it took to win the gold.

I was walking up the stadium steps at a men's soccer game at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I was in college and playing on the women's team, when someone said, "Did you hear? They're making women's soccer a full-medal Olympic sport." (Up until that point, it had just been for exhibition). It was 1993 and I'd been on the U.S. national team since 1987, when I was fifteen.

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As an American who grew up watching the Olympics on television, playing in the games was all I wanted to do. And it would mean I could continue playing beyond the World Cup in 1995. I had a reason to keep going. There was no women's professional league in the States at that time, so once you got out of school,