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Gold Medal Glamor

When 21-year-old Yang Qian won the women’s 10m air rifle competition, the first gold medal at the Olympic Summer Games Tokyo 2020, all eyes were on her. During the live-broadcast, close-ups of the event gave audiences detailed views of not only her performance, but also the accessories she donned, which included a yellow duck-shaped hairpin, an elastic hair band with a carrot-shaped bobble, and light pink nail polish dotted with small pearls.

“My 10-year-old daughter loved the hairpin right away,” Wu Shuting, a Beijing resident, told . “I scouted online shopping platforms and

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