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Aussie prostitutes limber up for 2000 Olympics
They're ready to entertain Down Under.
I can hear it now: “I want to see
fencing and sailing, then I want to get
laid.” Thanks to Australia’s booming
sex industry, wishes such as these
will easily come true at the 2000
Olympic Games in Sydney this September.
A recent BBC report said Aussie whores,
madams and pimps are very excited
about the numbers of tourists coming to
their country this year, and they’re
ready and willing to cater to their
every need.
Prostitution, which was legalized in the
state of New South Wales in 1995,
has grown by leaps and bounds. Sydney
madam Catherine O’Malley boasted to
the BBC, “There are 24 pages advertising
brothels and escort agencies in the
Yellow Pages today.”
In order to take full advantage of the
9 million potential customers who
will be attending the games, brothels
say they will launch huge advertising
campaigns and are recruiting workers
from overseas. Some love
shacks are already booked by unnamed
corporations that wish to show their
clients (and themselves, no doubt) a
very good time. One 39-year-old gigolo
named Saul told the BBC he has set up a
Web site advertising his services and
has already taken orders for September.
The Australian government wants all this
nookie to be safe, of course, and is
busy printing leaflets and producing
sex-education videos. Bernadette
Keefe, spokeswoman for the AIDS Council
of New South Wales, said, “We’ll
push the message home through the gay
press and make sure pubs, clubs and
brothels are well stocked with condoms,
lubricants and rubber gloves.”
Maria McMahon, manager of the
Sydney-based Sex Workers Outreach
Project,
also said she wants visitors to enjoy
themselves safely. She added, “I’m
sure they will. Sydney’s got some of
the world’s best prostitutes!”
Let the games begin.
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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.
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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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