直击里约奥运：领奖台之外的趣闻轶事

The gold medals and moments high of drama are all very well, but what about the strange little details that have marked out the Rio Olympics?
选手夺冠瞬间和金牌颁发时刻是奥运会全场瞩目的焦点，但其他那些同样让里约奥运大放异彩的细节，你又知道多少呢？

Here are some of the curiosities and lesser-spotted oddities witnessed so far at the Games.
本文将介绍奥运会领奖台之外，到目前为止发生的趣闻轶事。

US gymnasts' leotards are bedecked with thousands of crystals
美国体操选手们的连体紧身衣镶嵌了上千颗水晶

Simple lycra is not enough for Team USA. At this tournament, many of the women gymnasts' leotards are adorned with close to 5,000 Swarovski crystals.
美国体操队不再满足于款式朴素的莱卡料队服。在本届比赛中，许多体操女选手的队服上都镶上了施华洛世奇水晶，数目接近5000颗。

"Obviously, sparkles are not an element in the scoring," former Olympic gymnast Samantha Peszek, told the New York Times. "But it's part of the 'look good, feel good, do good' aspect."
“很显然，这些亮闪闪的装饰品无法帮助她们比赛得分，”前奥运体操选手萨曼莎•佩塞克告诉《纽约时报》的记者。“但这些水晶能让她们感到自己‘外形出色，心情愉悦，表现出彩’。”

In the last century, Olympic leotards didn't differ much from the outfit your sister would wear to ballet class. Then the sparkling fad began.
在上个世纪，奥运会的紧身衣和你家中姐妹上芭蕾舞课穿的那套并无二致。然而千禧年后，比赛紧身衣饰以闪亮配饰开始成为潮流。

In 2008, Nastia Liukin's leotard for the Beijing games had 184 crystals on it. By 2012, Gabby Douglas had 1,188 on hers. Now that figure has nearly quadrupled. "We're in a crystal arms race," Swarovski's Alexander Wellhoefer has said.
娜斯佳•柳金在2008年的奥运会上身穿镶嵌184颗水晶的紧身衣。而加布丽埃勒•道格拉斯在2012年的伦敦奥运会上身着1188颗水晶。但现在，这个镶嵌数目却几乎要翻两番！“这是一场水晶‘军备’竞赛，”施华洛世奇高层亚历山大•韦尔赫费尔曾这样打趣道。

The cost of those dazzling Team USA outfits?
这些闪闪发亮的美国队服价值多少？

About $1,200 (£912) each.
答案是每套1200美金（折合912英镑）。