Bald is beautiful, and Zach Lund has come to embrace this.
Getting kicked out of the Turin Olympics and labeled a drug cheat just hours before the 2006 opening ceremony remains a low point in the U.S. skeleton racer’s life, a chapter brought on by his usage of a hair-restoration drug.
“Going through all that, it’s made me who I am now,” Lund said.
This month, he’ll finally become an Olympian. He has shaved his head instead of trying to regain the mullet that he sheepishly acknowledges having during his youth. And he’s even getting the chance to cash in a bit on his 2006 misfortune — a company called HeadBlade says it will formally announce a one-year endorsement deal with Lund this week.
“It’s definitely a bright spot from it,” Lund said. “After it happened, even when it was happening, everyone was telling me to shave my head and make a statement. And I remember thinking, ‘Yeah, I should, but I don’t know if I have the guts to.’ ”
