With her hair and mask, Raven Saunders gets attention, and t… – MENAFN.COM

With her hair and mask, Raven Saunders gets attention, and t… – MENAFN.COM

Raven Saunders of the United States wears a face mask REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach googletag. cmd. push(function() { googletag. display('div-gpt-ad-1580985876494-0'); }); TOKYO - On the morning of her first Tokyo Olympics appearance, Raven Saunders dyed the right side of her buzz cut green and the left half purple. Normally, Saunders makes it all green, a nod to her nickname, Hulk. "Kind of an ode to the Joker, but also a way to switch it up a little bit, you know create a little bit of shock value," Saunders said. "I know everybody was probably expecting the green, so, I had to change it up." The bicolor hair sat atop Technicolor-shield sunglasses and a plastic-filter mask emblazoned with the Joker's smile. Photographs of Saunders glowering as she qualified her way into Sunday's final became one of the most striking images of the Tokyo Olympics. "I know these photos are going crazy right now," Saunders said. Saunders has a way of defying expectation. She has the sneer and the brawn of a world-class shot putter during meets - and then displays her bubbly, infectious personality afterward. She possesses enough confidence to talk about winning one of the toughest shot put competitions in history -