ALICA SCHMIDT has braved the needle to get her "first and only" tattoo.
The stunning German athlete, 26, competed astatine this summer's Olympic Games successful Paris.
Schmidt raced successful the mixed 4x400m relay astatine the Stade de France successful the French capital.
The 26-year-old achieved a lifelong imagination of becoming an Olympian aft missing retired successful Tokyo 2020.
She described the Games arsenic an "emotional rollercoaster" aft her relay squad failed to marque it retired of the heats.
Schmidt has chosen to people the juncture with immoderate ink, revealing to her 6 cardinal Instagram fans she had braved her archetypal tattoo.
The runner - who successful 2017 was named Sexiest Athlete Alive by Australia's Busted Coverage - documented her travel to the parlour successful an Instagram story.
She is seen lying connected a attraction array earlier revealing the finished merchandise - the six Olympic rings tattooed connected her outer thigh.
Schmidt captioned the post: "I'm sooo happy!! It turned retired precisely however I wanted it."
Despite disappointment connected the way successful Paris, the German posted a motivational connection to her millions of fans successful August.
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She wrote: "As an jock I americium inactive not wherever I privation to beryllium and possibly I volition ne'er be.
"And to those athletes who didn't marque it to Paris this year, ne'er halt believing successful yourself.
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"It's a bumpy roadworthy and 1 time each your hard enactment volition yet wage off!"
Following her adventures successful Paris, Schmidt embarked connected a drawstring of glamourous holidays.
She visited Italy, Thailand and the Maldives, wowing her fans with bikini-beach snaps from astir the world.
Schmidt besides went nationalist with her photographer boyfriend Fredi Richter-Menda successful June.
According to BILD, the brace person been an point for implicit 8 years.