Kiran Badloe

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Kiran Badloe is a Dutch windsurfer. He won the gold medal in the men's RS:X event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He also won the gold medal in the men's event at the RS:X World Championships in 2019, 2020 and 2021. In October 2020, he competed at the iQFoil International Games held at Campione, Lake Garda. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, he won gold for the Netherlands in windsurfing. After his Olympic win, Badloe garnered media attention for the distinctive "blue colored arrow haircut" he sported during the competition. The hairstyle was an homage to the cartoon character Aang from the Avatar: The Last Airbender series. Badloe explained the show's connection to his haircut ahead of his medal race: It's about a kid that controls the wind, and he needs to control all different kinds of elements of nature in order to do something great, and I'm doing the same here. Read more

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