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Form by Herb Ritts

On the cover: Colin Jackson, 110-m hurdle

As sports people, we’ve got to admit that we’re quite vain, because we show off.

Professional athletes define their bodies according to the discipline of their sport. Their bodies are a marvel in design, which timepiece maker Tag Heuer has likened to its Kirium sports watches.

A sports editor had given me a copy of Form, the Tag Heuer souvenir book that features 40 black and white images of international athletes taken by Herb Ritts a few years before he died of an HIV-related illness in 2002.

I love competition, when there’s a good fight. — Marie-Jo Perec, 200m/400m track

I was endowed with power. —Kazu Miura, soccer

When you play a good opponent, he obviously has the same weapons. You have to be patient, to wait until you can make the right move. —Boris Becker, tennis

(Sports) is an apprenticeship for life: we learn to respect our opponents, the rules and many important values. —Antonio Rossi, canoeing

You need to dream of doing something impossible and believing it is possible, then you can actually do something almost superhuman. — Jean Galfione, pole vault

Colin Jackson’s torso

Colin Jackson’s thighs

Colin Jackson’s back and butt

Let’s wear Tag Kirium and have our bodies looking like Jackson’s or Perec’s.


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