Hey, Rebecca. Whoever told you to bike like that?

For those of you who don’t know, Rebecca Romero is a British rower turned cyclist; she won a rowing silver medal [quadruple sculls] in Athens 2004 and is a favorite to win a cycling gold in Beijing. She has a website here.

Photo credit: dailymail.co.uk

Some of you are googling for “male Olympic hotties” so from now on I’m going to call every male Olympic gold medalist a “hottie” to get your traffic. [Evil, huh?] But, seriously, what’s hotter than a gold medal? Maybe a diamond medal but since they don’t make diamond medals, a gold medal is the hottest of them all. Anyone with an Olympic gold medal = hottie.

Anyways, you’ve already met, judoka Choi Minho, but here’s more pictures of him. My bet is that Korean school girls will soon ditch Rain and idolize this guy who, seemingly [but understandably in this instance], likes to cry.

He beat guys bigger than him? Go Choi Minho!

Related:
Choi Minho Scores One Gold For South Korea

Photo credits: People’s Daily and beijing2008

Now we’re talking. The China vs. United States race for gold medals is on. Fencer Mariel Zagunis saved the day for the U.S. when she “outsabered” her opponents to win the first gold medal for the U.S. The food they brought all the way from the U.S. must have helped, no?

Anyways, it was actually a clean sweep for the Americans because they also won the silver and the bronze medals for the event prompting an AP writer, Noah Trister, [I think he's American] to write, “Now, the US is the only country with three medals.”

Huh! Silly dude. Expect him to ignore the medal totals if the U.S. is doing better in the gold medal tally.

Photo source: s9.com

Methinks those silly South Korean school girls should now end their obsession with Rain and focus their attention to judoka Choi Minho who won the first gold medal for South Korea. He’s got everything that matters: good looks and an Olympic gold medal. Does Rain have a gold medal? None. Nada. Zero.

And here’s another reason why you schoolgirls should like Minho: he believes in his parent’s dreams and these dreams do come true. From monstersandcritics:

Minho later revealed that his parents had recently dreamed of a big moment.

‘I want to tell my mother. Before I came to Beijing my mother had a dream that a lot of people came to our house to say congratulations to Minho. My father said he also had a dream, that ‘the sun shone from his heart.’

‘I can’t believe that the dreams have come true,’ said Choi, who improved from his bronze medal finish 2004 in Athens.

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Romania’s judoka Alina Alexandra Dumitru should write a book entitled “How to Win an Olympic Gold Medal in 80 Seconds“. I think it will be a best seller.

Felicitări, Alina, you made Romania very proud indeed.

Romania related:
Nicolae Linca, Gold Medalist, 79

Photo credit: chinadaily.com