Knitted Olympic stars - in pictures

Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, both 800m and 1500m Olympic medal-winners in Moscow, 1980. Seb Coe also took gold and silver medals in Los Angeles, 1984
Photograph: Steve Powell/Getty/Holly Jolliffe/Knitlympics

Carolina Kluft, a heptathlete who won gold in Athens in 2004
Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters/Holly Jolliffe/Knitlympics

Carl Lewis, a sprinter and long jumper who won medals in Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996
Photograph: David Cannon/Allsport/Holly Jolliffe/Knitlympics

Jesse Owens, a sprinter and long jumper who won four golds at Berlin in 1936
Photograph: Joe Caneva/AP/Holly Jolliffe/Knitlympics

Richard Fosbury, a highjumper who invented the Fosbury Flop technique and took gold in Mexico City, 1968
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis/Holly Jolliffe/Knitlympics

Usain Bolt, a sprinter who won three gold medals in Beijing, 2008
Photograph: Michael Kappeler/AFP/Getty Images/Holly Jolliffe/Knitlympics

Florence Griffith-Joyner, or Flo-Jo, a sprinter who won silver at Los Angeles 1984 and three golds and a silver at Seoul 1988
Photograph: Rik Wilking/EPA/Holly Jolliffe/Knitlympics

Mark Spitz, a swimmer who took two golds, a silver and a bronze in Mexico, 1968, and seven golds in Munich, 1972
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images/Holly Jolliffe/Knitlympics

Cathy Freeman, a sprinter who won silver in Atlanta, 1996, and gold in Sydney, 2000
Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images/Holly Jolliffe/Knitlympics

Olga Korbut, a gymnast who won three golds and a silver in Munich, 1972, and one gold and a silver in Montreal, 1976
Photograph: Corbis/Holly Jolliffe/Knitlympics