After a week of Olympic overdosing, the image of a gymnast sticking a landing comes to mind.

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As my Forbes colleague Kurt Badenhausen noted, Ms. Hamilton is not the first Olympic athlete to severely tarnish their image.

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And as you know, in big-time Olympic sports like track and field, image is everything.

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The partnership is a big win for Mancuso, because she has been able to capitalize off her achievements when many of her peers who participate in Olympic sports are unable to exploit their image, likeness and other intellectual property outside of the Olympics.

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There is a par-5 threading its way through Mayan ruins, while another green is created in the image of the "Birds Nest" Olympic Stadium in Beijing.

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) already has something of an image problem in this regard.

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Hours later, the world woke up to the image of a masked man on the balcony of the Olympic Village.

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Or Alex Morgan, the budding young superstar whose image graced a billboard in Times Square during the Olympic games.

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In fact, a photo of Burroughs and Iranian wrestler Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi locked arm-in-arm on the medal stand in London has become a symbolic image on social media sites for the movement to save Olympic wrestling.

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Instead, it's better to just come out and say it: while watching the swimming event and cut-down highlights of the opening ceremony, there were moments when we could almost have believed we were looking not at a projected image, but rather through a window direct onto the Olympic Stadium or Aquatics Center itself.

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Despite the image of the sculpted African body, no African nation won an Olympic lifting medal.

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The same team took the first-ever single-molecule image in 2009 and more recently published images of a molecule shaped like the Olympic rings.

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