2018 Winter Olympics: Oiled-up Tongan flag-bearer is hoping to be just as slick on skis
No account of the Rio Olympics' opening ceremony could be complete without the Tongan flag-bearer, who strode into the Maracana slathered in enough baby oil to glue up a Highland cow. Even Andy Murray, performing the same duty for Britain, felt upstaged by this muscle-bound figure dressed only in a ta'ovala skirt and a shell necklace, while swooning female admirers scrambled to book the next flight to Nuku'alofa.

