Posts from — July 2008

Are you thinking, “Who’s that girl?” This girl, my friend, is Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva. She won the gold medal during the 2004 Athens Olympics and she plans to continue competing until 2013 when Russia hosts the World Athletic Championships. This means that you will be seeing more of her in the future and in this blog.

Yelena won the Laureaus Award for Sportsmanship in 2007 and, in the words of wikipedia, “makes fun of the fact that female pole vaulters are seen as sex symbols for male couch potatoes”. Hehe. Male couch potatoes, you can learn more about our Olympic hottie by visiting her website.

More hotties:
Hottie Pellegrini Wins Fourth Gold Medal for Italy
Olympic Hottie of the Day: Leryn Franco
Olympic Hotties: Amanda Beard Naked
Olympic Hottie of the Day: Goldie Sayers
Olympic Hottie of the Day: Juliana Felisberta Silva
Olympic Hottie: Yelena Isinbayeva
Olympic Hottie: Maria Sharapova

PHOTO SOURCE: Yelena Isinbayeva’s Official Website

Well if you want it, then you got it. From now on, I’m going to stop blogging about those kinda boring Olympic country reports that no one seems to be interested in and focus instead on Olympic hotties like Dara Torres whose pictures have driven LOTS of traffic to this blog.

Call it listening to the wisdom of the crowd or, if you’re less benevolent, crossing over to the dark side but from now on I will blog mostly about hot Olympians. Hehehe.

Maybe I will make this an Olympic tabloid and follow the David Lat school of blogging. David, in case you don’t know him, became in/famous when he blogged about hot judges — he was obsessed about what judges are hiding underneath their robes — and hot lawyers and that kind of stuff.

Anyways, the Olympic hotties you are looking for will be coming soon.

Because a lot of you are looking for more Dara Torres pictures, I decided to upload more of them. This is Dara posing for Maxim Magazine.And here’s Dara in action; swimming and training in the gym.

Added Note: Join us as we monitor the gold medal race between China and the United States, here.

Related: Dara Torres Makes Another Olympic Bid and introducing the Dara Torres LOLCATz.

Photo sources: maximonline and nytimes

Psst, hey you spectator who wants to ogle at skimpily dressed male athletes, here’s a tip you should bear in mind: look out for those athletes who will be using Viagra during the Beijing Games.

What’s that again? Some athletes will be using Viagra? That’s right. Apparently some of them have used it in previous events and will, no doubt, be using it in the Olympics.

Because authorities aren’t sure whether Viagra really enhances athletic performance, they are allowing it to be used in Beijing. I’m pretty sure those who will use it will be very popular with the ladies [and the gays].

Can you imagine the results if male swimmers, and gymnasts, and divers, and wrestlers will use Viagra to enhance their athletic performance? Hah. The ratings of the Olympic Games will skyrocket to be sure. The Games will overtake the World Cup as the most watched sports event. And Beckham, that exhibitionist who’s turning women into silly Beckham maniacs and who’s making a lot of men jealous/envious will totally become a has-been.

Read AP story on Viagra use by athletes here.

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Our condolences to Nicolae Linca’s family and friends. Here’s a report from the AP about his death.

AP via CBS: BUCHAREST, Romania — Nicolae Linca, Romania’s only Olympic gold medalist boxer, died at his home Saturday. He was 79.

Fighting with a broken right wrist, Linca beat Irish boxer Frederick Tiedt to win gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Linca was awarded the victory by three of the five judges.

Linca died in his hometown of Feisa in Transylvania, northwest Romania. Daily Pro-Sport reported the former welterweight had been suffering from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease for several years.

“He left a legacy which even now we have the duty to try and equalize, and why not, even to do better,” said Rudel Obraja, president of the Romanian Boxing Federation.

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