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By Press-Register staff
February 22, 2010, 4:00PM
View full sizeBritain's Sinead Kerr and John Kerr perform their original dance during the ice dance figure skating competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. While Sinead Kerr's belly button piercing was visible in frontal shots from their performance, when she turned a lower back tattoo could be seen. 
View full sizeBritish ice dancer Sinead Kerr's lower back tattoo was clearly visible during her performance of an original routine with her brother John on Sunday in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is seen here in a file photo from a previous event in which she wore a similar costume.Ah, yes, ice dancing at the Winter Olympics. The sport of grace, beauty, skill, technically precise lines cut across smooth ice and ... Johnny Cash music, Daisy Dukes outfits and lower back tattoos. Huh?Yes, if you think you saw a lower back tattoo during a Sunday ice dancing performance at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, you were right.
During the performance by British brother-sister duo Sinead and John Kerr of an original dance to Johnny Cash's "I've Been Everywhere," Sinead's tattoo was clearly visible above the waistline of her blue jean shorts.
It's not the first time the tattoo has made a public appearance. After a 2005 Skate Canada event, Sinead Kerr explained how she got it: "JP (the pair's longtime ballroom instructor, John Paul Deloose) said I should get one to remind me of my back so I would shake it more. He felt I wasn't sexy enough last season."
OK, fair enough.
Kerr is not the only Olympic contender getting ink for wearing it.
View full sizeJulie Chu's Olympic tattoo appears in this shot from an NBC video in which she talks about what led her to ink up.Women's U.S. hockey forward Julie Chu, who's making her third Olympic appearance in Vancouver, talked about the origin of her Olympic rings tattoo in an NBC video clip.
As it turns out, Chu wasn't the only one in her family to have to feel the pain of a tattoo needle.
When Chu tried out for the 2002 Winter Olympics her senior year in high school, her father made a bet that the whole family would get tattoos if she made the U.S. Olympic women's ice hockey team.
The day after the national team was announced, her parents, brother, and sister each got tattoos bearing the Olympic rings and Julie's No. 13, according to NBC's 2010 Winter Olympics Web site.
USA short track speed skater J.R. Selski bared the large Philippine flag tattoo across his chest after his disqualification on Saturday night.
Celski is Filipino by descent and the tattoo has created a bit of an Internet frenzy from people who wanted to know that the tattoo means.
View full sizeUSA short track speed skater J.R. Celski's tattoo is visible in this screen capture from coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
(Sometimes humorous, sometimes provocative, 4 O'clock Fodder is a recurring online Press-Register feature that features water cooler discussion topics of regional or national interest. This edition of fodder was revised at 5:53 p.m. to remove the term "tramp stamp" in reference to Sinead Kerr's tattoo. Some readers found the term offensive and, after consultation with sources including The Urban Dictionary, we had to agree it didn't have the best of connotations.)
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