Category — Germany

Britta Steffen’s playfulness in the swimming pool didn’t hurt her Olympic bid as she out-swam her opponents to bag the gold medal in the 100 meters freestyle. Britta’s victory brings up Germany’s gold medal haul to eight as of posting.

Photos courtesy of weltonline and stern.de

Pardon me if I keep putting up photos of naked Olympians and Olympic hotties. I do it because most of you are asking for it and also because Olympians themselves wouldn’t mind getting naked for the sake of “art”. Like Germany’s fencing gold medalist Britta Heidemann for instance:
Anyways, there’s really nothing wrong with nakedness, is there? Clothes were invented by sweat shop capitalists like Nike who are now making tons of money because they totally convinced us that nakedness is unacceptable. Damn these capitalists. And they’re exploiting the children of Southeast Asia too.

Anyways, congratulations to Britta for winning a gold medal in Beijing.

Photo credit: beijing 2008 [for the last photo]

Emo-haired German fencer Benjamin Kliebrink won a gold medal for himself and for Germany and, following the good old tradition of Olympic medal-biting, promptly bit the medal. Kliebrink beat Japanese Ota Yuki for the gold, in case you are wondering.

Here’s Benjamim celebrating his victory. I must say that the photographer deserves a medal of his own for shooting a picture that resembles a baroque painting by Caravaggio.

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Germany’s Alexander Grimm: Finally, an Olympic Gold Medal Biter

Photo credit: Vladimir Rys via Beijing2008

I’m sure Germany‘s Alexander Grimm, gold medalist in the Olympic Kayak K1, isn’t the first one to bite his gold medal in Beijing but this is the first photo I saw of a medal biter. It’s good to know that the good old tradition of Olympic medal biting is alive and well and won’t go the way of the dodo.

But why do athletes bite their medals? Apparently to test their authenticity. The good guys at Slate Magazine will tell you however that the Olympic gold medals aren’t really made of gold but are made of gold-plated silver.

Photo source: shaun botterill/beijing2008

Germany is sending a total of 435 athletes to the Beijing Olympic Games. Here’s a partial list from dosb.de :

Cycling
Jooß, Anette
Arndt, Judith
Kupfernagel, Hanka
Worrack, Trixi
Grabsch, Bert
Schumacher, Stefan
Voigt, Jens
Wegmann, Fabian

Mountain biking
Morath, Adelheid
Fumic, Manuel
Kurschat, Wolfram
Milatz, Moritz

Weightlifting
Shaloyan, Artyom
Spiess, Jürgen

Canoeing
Ems, Jonas
Hollstein, Martin
Ihle, Andreas

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