With her hair and mask, Raven Saunders gets attention, and then makes use of it

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.