Off Track ..... Mali's Don King hairdos a cut above

Mali's female basketball team lost all its games at the Olympics but earned top style marks for their "electric shock" Don King-style hairdos.

The Olympic basketball venue is the place to be seen and Chinese fashionistas looking for hairstyling tips from the cream of the world's basketballers have a myriad of options.

"Mali looked cool," said 17-year-old student Liu Qian of the players' frizzy dreadlock-styles, set off by a shock of midnight blue or lime green, the American boxing promoter would have been proud of.