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Gallery of Sexy Sports Stars
This gallery celebrates the
grueling work of becoming a world class athlete. We are in awe of
the toned, athletic body, which takes years and years to build and
perfect. In addition to hours
of training, a world class athletic body requires an excellent
diet, plenty of sleep and rest, and mental harmony if it is to
perform at the peak of its potential.
No
starlets here, no Hollywood wannabes, couldabeens or hasbeens,
just ripped and ready athletes at the top of their game. |
 SPOT THE DIFFERENCE:
Jennie Finch, softball. Finch had a 2 - 0 win-loss record in the
2004 Athens Summer Olympics, striking out 13 batters in eight
innings while giving up only one hit, one walk and no runs.
Her pitching helped lead the American team to the gold medal.
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Misty May-Treanor and teammate Kerri
Walsh won gold in beach volleyball at both the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. They have been called "the greatest beach
volleyball team of all time".
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Ryoko
Tokuno of Japan, beach volleyball |
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Kara Goucher, above,
U.S.A. distance runner, 5,000 and 10,000 meters, bronze medal in
the 10k at the world championships in Osaka
Shalane Flanagan, U.S.A.,
distance runner, bronze medal in the 10k at the Beijing
Olympics. "At the end of the day, all I can do is lead by
example. On a daily basis, I focus on maximizing my natural
talent. When I retire, I don't want to tell my children that I
was once the best in the world, but that I had to cheat to get
there. I want to be able to say that I used every ounce of my
potential and that was enough for me."
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Above, Amy Acuff, U.S.A.,
high jump. Below, Merlene Ottey, Jamaica and Slovenia,
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Marie-Jose Perec, France,
track star. After a troubled career the gold-winning Olympian
retired and looked forward to a career in tourism on Guadaloupe.
Marie-Jose
Perec could have run away with the gold in the women's 400-meter
race in the Sydney Olympics. Instead, she just ran away. Reuters
reported that the French track star fled the country, claiming
that someone had threatened her at her hotel. Apart from Perec's
assertion, there's no proof that such an encounter took place.
This is one of a line of weird happenings in Perec's athletics
career.
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World's Hottest Sports
Stars
Inge "The Body" de Bruijn,
Dutch superstar swimmer |
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Beach Volleyball Star Kerri Walsh Spikes FrICTION
How do you prepare for other teams? Watch video?
Absolutely. Our coach scouts and gives us scouting
reports. We watch video and we work on stuff that we need work on
ourselves.
Do you and Misty work as opposed to other teams?
I think for whatever reason we just play well together.
And because we play well, we win a lot. And it seems when we win a
lot, everything's easier. Because when you're losing, you're
stressed, you're freaking out, you're working just as hard but
you're just not winning. So, us winning (means) we don't have very
many problems. It just kind of makes it all better. It makes all
those little problems go away.
Both you and Misty got married since the Athens
Olympics. Has that
changed anything?
No, not really because my husband (Casey Jennings) does what I do
and nothing's changed in that respect. But we're more stable.
We're all grown up now. We're in great, loving relationships, very
supportive relationships. And I think the only difference really
is that Misty's name is hyphenated (May-Treanor).
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Serena Williams, U.S.A.,
tennis. "I don't really read what everyone writes because
sometimes they can say really positive things about me,
sometimes they can say something that is supposed to be positive
but has negative connotations. You can also get a big head, so
for me it was just to stop reading. I just realized that I have
to focus on me and I'm comfortable with my game."
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 Josefine Oqvist
(above), Sweden, international soccer player and Olympian.
Below Carin Koch (below), Sweden, golf. She plays mainly
on the LPGSA tour.
Therese Alshammer, Sweden,
swimmer diva.
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Merlene Ottey, Jamaica and
Slovenia, sprint star and world record breaker. Still running at
48, Ottey says: "I didn't think I'd still be here 28 years
later. The first time I was aware of the Olympics was 1976. I
listened to it on radio; I didn't have a TV. I wanted to know,
'What is all this fuss about?' And they told me Jamaica was
winning. I said, 'Oh great, I want to be in the next Olympics.'
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Cheryl Taplin, U.S.A., retired
sprinter. At
the end of 2000, Taplin walked away from running. She had torn
an Achilles tendon next to her heel, and the recovery was slow.
She was low on money.
She left track and field because
of what others were doing at her expense. Performance-enhancing
drugs were in widespread use by her fellow athletes.
"It was very unfair,"
Taplin said. "That's the part that was so aggravating
because of all the work I was putting in with training and the
mental part -- and the mental part was as hard as the physical
part. To a certain extent, you knew who was (using drugs) or had
an idea. For the most part, a lot of my friends that I was
really close with, we all kind of stopped (competing) around the
same time... It was out of hand. We just couldn't take it any
more." Taplin came home.
Inger Miller, U.S.A.,
sprint star. Commenting on the drugs scandal surrounding former
rival Marion Jones, Miller said: "I'm happy that she has
turned the medals over, and there was no fight for it or
anything like that," said Inger Miller. At least she's
woman enough to stand up and say the truth and do what's
right."
Anna Willard, U.S.A.,
steeplechaser. Speaking of the mileage needed to be a top
competitive college runner, she says: "I increased five to
ten miles every year at Brown. I was 50 to 55 freshman year, 55
to 60 sophomore year, junior year up to 65, and senior year 70
to 75. This fall, I didn't go over 82 to 83. I probably stayed
75 to 80. Of course, I'd take a day off every two or three
weeks, so sometimes I'd have a low week. I don't like to focus
on the number too much. I tried to see how my body was feeling,
which I didn't actually do the best job at. I had an Achilles
problem. I had to take four weeks off. Thinking about it now,
actually, it was probably a really good thing. I got to take a
little time off and that pushes my season a little farther back
right now."
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KIM GEVAERT: We honor retired Belgian
sprinter Kim Gevaert (pictured left), who has been a
successful international athlete for more than ten years. In addition to
her two European titles from 2006, she has sprinted her way to three
European indoor titles for 60m and various world and European medals.
Her greatest Olympic achievement to date was when she came sixth in the
200m in Athens in 2004. Gevaert is a ambassador for the charity SOS
Children's Villages.
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