Q.1123

Image: Emma Green Tregaro/Instagram

Emma Green Tregaro is a Swedish high jumper who finished fifth in the IAAF Athletics World Championships held in Moscow in August 2013. She made more headlines for these nails (seen during the heats) than for her jumping. In the finals, she showed up with red fingernails ("for love").

So why the colourful fingernails and why the fuss?

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Russia has enacted a law against homosexuals; Tregaro was showing her solidarity with the LGBT community with these 'rainbow' nails. Here's more on the rest of the story.

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