adidas Tokyo Olympics
2020 Trading card &
NFT art
This project by Adidas supported athletes who participated in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics 2020. Each athlete was presented with a trading card, with illustrations of multiple objects that represented their roots.
The digital versions were also auctioned off as NFT art, with the proceeds donated to charity. Athletes: Caroline Dubois, Daniel Dias, Laura Kenny, Mariah Duran, Miho Nonaka, Monica Okoye, Noah Lyles, Shauna Coxsey, Shaunae Miller Uibo
Noah Lyles
born July 18, 1997
United State of America / RUNNER
Noah Lyles is an American professional track and field sprinter competing in the 100 meters and 200 meters. He is the 2019 world champion, the 2020 Olympic bronze medalist, and the 2022 world champion in the 200m. The artwork conveys a sense of fun, based on a stadium that combines a track and field track with his beloved music, and depicts a Florida Panther, a symbol of speed, among other things.
Caroline Dubois
born 11 January 2001
England / BOXER
Caroline Sara Dubois is a British professional boxer. She has been Youth Olympic champion, World Youth champion and four-times European Youth champion.
This artwork depicts her background and her strength based on keywords such as Boxing Gloves, "No Girls Allowed” Sign With The “No Crossed Out", Flames, And Family Tree.
Daniel Dias
born 24 May 1988
Brazil / Swimmer
Daniel de Faria Dias (born 24 May 1988) is a Brazilian Paralympic swimmer. Having learnt to swim in 2004 after being inspired by Clodoaldo Silva at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, he entered his first international competition two years later winning five medals. He competed in a wide range of swimming events at the 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 Paralympics and won 27 medals, including 14 gold medals. His own logo and fish are scattered on the base of the pool, which is his main competition area.
Mariah Duran
born 14 Dec 1996
United State of America / Skateboarder
In 2021, skateboarding will be an olympic sport for the first time in history, which will forever soldify skateboarding as a true competative sport on an international level. Mariah is on the very first olympic skate team.
Mariah is from albuquerque, Mariah is best known for being the first female skater to land a hardflip down a flight of stairs – the hardflip is now her ‘signature move’. The artwork has a dynamic feel, adding various parts reminiscent of skateboarding to her unique elements such as hard flip silhouettes and yucca flowers.
Laura Kenny
born 24 Apr 1992
England / Track Cyclist
Laura is a British track and road cyclist who specialises in track endurance events, specifically the team pursuit, omnium, scratch race, elimination race and madison disciplines. With six Olympic medals, having won both the team pursuit and the omnium at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and madison at the 2020 Olympics, along with a silver medal from the team pursuit at the 2020 Olympics, she is both the most successful female cyclist, and the most successful British female athlete, in Olympic history. The warmth of the artwork combines elements of her hometown of Harlow, Essex, and her dog, Springer Poodle, which represent her as a mother and athlete, with cycling.
Miho Nonaka
born 21 May 1997
Japan / Climber
A climber from Tokyo, Japan, she won her first Bouldering World Cup Mumbai in 2016, competed in all three disciplines (bouldering, lead, and speed) at the 2017 China Open, held for the first time in China, and in July 2017, the World Games in Wroclaw, Poland She won a silver medal in the sport climbing bouldering event at 2017 and a silver medal in women's combined - sport climbing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. This cute artwork combines the character of her native Sugamo and her cat with elements of climbing.
Monica Okoye
born 7 Feb 1999
Japan / Basketball
Japanese women's basketball player for Eleftheria Moshatou in Greece. She is half Nigerian and half Japanese, and has an older brother, Rui Okoye, a Japanese professional baseball player. Her court name is Tina and her position is center forward. She won a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics. The artwork combines the waves associated with Fujitsu Red Wave, her team at the Olympics, The dynamic artwork combines the waves associated with Fujitsu Red Wave, her team at the time of the Olympics, with her trademark curly hair and a basketball court.
Shauna Coxsey
born 27 Jan 1993
England / Climber
She is an English professional rock climber. She is the most successful competition climber in the UK, having won the IFSC Bouldering World Cup Season in both 2016 and 2017. She retired from competition climbing after competing in the 2020 Olympics. One of only four women to successfully climbed a boulder route Rated (8b+), her artwork depicts that 8b+, her favorite pair of glasses, and The Order Of The British Empire (MBE) she was awarded in 2016 on the bouldering wall.
Shaunae Miller Uibo
born 14 Apr 1994
Bahamas / Sprinter
Shaunae Miller-Uibo is a Bahamian track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres. She is a two-time Olympic champion after winning the women's 400 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics and again at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She is the 2022 World champion in the event. The artwork depicts her trademark Colorful Braided Texture, her mascot, the bulldog , Gold Bars and Yellow Elder Flowers – The National Flower Of The Bahamas.
