Category — Tennis

It was great watching these guys get a gold medal. Go Roger Federer. Go Stalislas Wawrinka!

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Some of you are googling for the Olympic uniforms worn by the athletes during the parade of nations so let’s start a series of entries looking at their uniforms.

Let’s start with Roger Federer because he’s my hero [hehe] and let’s hope that he can get out of his current slump and win himself a gold medal in Beijing. Go Raja!

I’m still looking for the Hungarian Olympic uniforms which a lot of you have been googling.

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Any list of hot Olympians will not be complete without Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova so let’s include her in our list. No one will object, no?

Her on-court grunting distracts from her performance but, according to a friend, it adds eroticism to her play.

Anyways, be sure you check out our other hotties: Yelena Isinbayeva and Dara Torres.

Related:
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Zheng Jie’s success in Wimbledon this year [she beat the world number one, Ana Ivanovic en route to a semifinal appearance] earns her a place in our list of Olympians to Watch. She will still prioritize doubles but she is now more confident in her singles game. Go, Zheng Jie!

In the first round we had Mahesh Bhupathi proclaiming that he doesn’t want to play doubles with Leander Paes in the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games.

Not surprisingly, Leander Paes — a bronze medalist during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics — poured his heart out “saying that he was hurt” by Bhupathi’s conduct.

According to our source: An emotionally charged Paes sounded more pained at the way Bhupathi has gone about the whole business of teaming up with him and also by the latter’s unwillingness to discuss the problems with him directly.

Despite the current hard feelings between the two, Paes is still hoping that a Paes-Bhupathi doubles team will materialize in Beijing:

“At the end of the day, we will be hurting ourselves by deflecting our focus from the goal, thus putting additional pressure to get a medal. There is no team better than Leander and Bhupathi to get an Olympic medal.”

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