Olympics
Full-frontal Aussie soccer babes
A recent fund-raising endeavor has the Canberra-based women's team posing sans uniforms for a controversial calendar.
Dec. 6, 1999
Even their fuzzy flesh down under is exposed in the Australian women’s soccer team calendar that will unveil 12 photos of pretty players in the buff.
“There’s full frontal, the whole business … It’s very exciting,” claims Miss June, topless right back Amy Taylor. “I wanted to prove we are not all big, butch lesbians. We are attractive, feminine girls,” she explicitly informed the Dec. 1 Daily Record.
The buck-naked footballers are trying to raise cash and their public profile so that corporate sponsors will assist them in next year’s Sydney Olympic Games. But critics are hissing that the only big boost they’ll see will be in the pubic zone of men’s trousers.
Crotch-baring Katrina Boyd, a 28-year-old striker, disputes the notion that her genitalia display is offensive. “I’m proud of what I’ve done and happy with it,” she revealed to the Nov. 30 AAP Newsfeed.
Forty-five thousand calendars are expected to streak out of stores, netting a profit of $1 per item. The goal-slamming gals also hope that their bared buttocks will put additional fans’ butts in the stadium seats, when their clothed contests are in progress.
Upcoming kick-fests include skirmishes with international all-stars from the Czech Republic, Sweden and the world champion United States. Obviously, Brandi Chastain will have to show more than her sports bra to outdo these au naturel Aussies.
The media-spanking inflicted on the flesh-peddling punters has stung, notes nude defender 21-year-old Tracie McGovern, who growled, “There’s been a few people upset by it and we have to respect their opinion but they need to show us respect as well.”
Calendar haters are foaming most foully about an underage page: bottomless player Alicia Ferguson was only 17 when her skin shot was snapped.
What’s next, critics whine. Topless ping-pong? Nude cricket? Sumo porn? Can’t anybody keep their togs on?
Hank Hyena is a former columnist for SF Gate, and a frequent contributor to Salon. More Hank Hyena.
Pyeongchang awarded 2018 Winter Olympics
The South Korean city beat out Munich and Annecy, France
South Korea's figure skater and Olympic champion Kim Yu-na during the presentation of the Pyeongchang bid , in front of the 123rd International Olympic Committee (IOC) session that will decide the host city for the 2018 Olympics Winter Game, in Durban, South Africa, Wednesday July 6, 2011. The International Olympic Committee will announce the host city for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Durban, Wednesday, choosing between three candidates Annecy, France; Munich Germany; and Pyeongchang, South Korea for the 2018 host. (AP Photo/Rogan Ward, Pool)(Credit: AP) The South Korean city of Pyeongchang was awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics on Wednesday after failing in two previous attempts.
Pyeongchang defeated rivals Munich and Annecy, France, in the first round of a secret ballot of the International Olympic Committee.
Needing 48 votes for victory, Pyeongchang received 63 of the 95 votes cast. Munich received 25 and Annecy seven.
The Koreans had lost narrowly in previous bids for the 2010 and 2014 Olympics.
Pyeongchang will be the first city in Asia outside Japan to host the Winter Games. Japan held the games in Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano in 1998.
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The Olympic skier pays homage to the famous cinematic crotch shot on the cover of ESPN
Olympic gold-medalist Lindsey Vonn has recreated that scene from “Basic Instinct” on the cover of ESPN magazine. And by “that scene” I do mean the one in which Sharon Stone infamously flashed her naughty bits to the world. It’s the magazine’s movie issue — why ESPN has a movie issue, I do not know — and it boasts a bunch of athletes reproducing classic film scenes. The headline accompanying the saucy cover photo is, wait for it, “Back to Basics.” Funny, I thought the magazine’s Body Issue — which came out just a few months ago and features exquisitely athletic naked bodies — was a return to “basics.” But it doesn’t get any more basic, or base, than paying homage to the most famous crotch shot in cinematic history.
Tracy Clark-Flory is a staff writer at Salon. Follow @tracyclarkflory on Twitter. More Tracy Clark-Flory.
London 2012 plans for record 5,000 doping tests
Record number of athletes to be tested prior to 2012 games
London Olympic organizers say a record 5,000 doping tests will be carried out at the 2012 Games.
The local organizing committee has signed a memorandum of understanding with Britain’s anti-doping body and will implement the testing program under the authority of the International Olympic Committee.
London 2012 director of sport Debbie Jevans says the size of the testing program will give a “strong message that drug cheats are not welcome at the London Games.”
UK Anti-Doping will train anti-doping officials and assist them during the event to carry out a 10 percent increase on the 4,500 tests conducted at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Olympic highlight reel
The most memorable moments of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver
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Raining on Canadian women’s parade
The gold medal winning hockey team boozes it up on the ice and sparks condemnation
Canada Haley Irwin, left, and Tessa Bonhomme, right, celebrate after Canada beat USA 2-0 to win the women's gold medal ice hockey game at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)(Credit: AP) Canada’s women’s hockey team has scored quite the controversy by daring to celebrate their win against the U.S. on Thursday by sipping beer, guzzling champagne and smoking cigars on the ice. After the fans filtered out of the stadium, the ladies returned to the rink still in uniform with gold medals draped around their necks. They laid on the ice, poured champagne in each other’s mouths and soaked up the Olympic glory. Their revelry hardly would have garnered any attention, except for one minor detail: there was an Associated Press photographer on hand to capture it all on film.
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