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Sunday, August 24, 2008
The Olympics ended. What a great one it has been too. I sound rather calm, don't I? I am actually a little sad. It has been a very good friend for the past 2 weeks. And I love Beijing, though the pollution made my throat itch (first time its ever happened), for its blend of things old and new. Its a great city, it really is... once you can look past the spitting and Q-cutting that is.

To me, Olympians is what make the Games watchable. Specifically, HOT ones. Uh huh, what test of the human spirit, blah blah... conquering their setbacks... blah blah facing adversity blah blah ASIDE, I want to watch hotties. No hotties, no watching. And here are the top 3 I've unexpectedly uncovered at the Games.



Bronze Medalist: Luca Marin
Country Representing: Italy, land of my true love - Pasta
Sport: Swimming
Event: 400m Individual Medley
Medal Hopeful: Nada. Luca ended out of the podium on his event, but hey... he made this one!


With the swimmer hot bods, one would think that MORE hotties would make this list. But I hold myself to higher standards, I am selective! But Luca's story is slightly scandalous. The only reason why I even heard his name was because he was involved in this love drama with a world record holder swimmer from France. The story is so juicy that I just have to share it with everyone.

So Luca was engaged to this French superstar... and she was so in love (and stupid) that she eloped to Italy to be with him, thus severing ties with the French swim team and basically, France. But the Italian team did not welcome her like Luca did, and banned her from their training facilities etc. So poor French girl had to go home, head hung in shame, losing Luca in the meantime. After a few months, these lewd photographs of the poor French girl surfaced on the internet, citing suspicions that Luca and the Italian swim team had posted them to distract the poor French girl from training and the Olympics.


And they did.. a former world record holder is reduced to 8th placing this year in Beijing. Aiii, you poor stupid girl! And like its not enough, Luca has moved on to dating poor French girl's fierce competitor, some poor Italian girl (who is incidentally also a record holder now).

OHHH, LUCA! You are terrible... but then you are Italian after all, so maybe its more acceptable.






Silver Medalist: Andreas Thorkildsen
Country Representing: Norway... mmm salmon!
Event: Javelin Throw
Medal Hopeful: You betcha... Andreas won AND broke the record!


Oh my... if they made throwers like THAT when I was in the sport, MAYBE I WOULD NEVER HAD LEFT! Javelin throwers are usually the smallest of throwers, cos they don't need to have the pre-requisite low CG that other throwers (esp Hammer) have... Javelin throwers sprint a short distance in order to eject the javelin with as much power as possible which mean lots of running for stamina as well as speed. And so, you can imagine Andreas is in really good shape. Like, REALLY good. And he is so good at the Javelin, that he threw a whooping 96m or something ridiculous like that. There literally wasn't much field left! Shiyun and I were kidding that it is unwise to marry an Olympic thrower, cos you would ask him to take out the trash, and he would throw it so far that it would end up 2 blocks away. URBS. And then when you ask him to throw you the hmm, keys for instance, it will probably go through your hand.

But Andreas is veryy hamsum, DON'T BELIEVE, YOU SEE!!!!!!!!







AND NOW, FOR THE GOLD MEDAL AWARD WINNER......


Gold Medalist: Bryan Clay
Country Representing: U.S.A - land of the free....samples!
Event: Decathlon
Medal Hopeful: UH huhhhh, with a record to boot.


OK come on now. Bryan's from Hawaii, with a very mixed heritage. Part African part Japanese, and everything else in between. Just look at those eyes! The chiseled jawline that Shiyun calls 'VERY ARMANI'... Bryan's a very toned down/less intimidating version of Tyson Beckford.

Clay's married and has a son though. Yay for his wife, but boo to the rest of the universe. But anyway, he is hailed as the REAL superman, for not only attempting 10 events, but being really good while doing 10 events and smashing the world record! But actually, to me...focus is his looks la.





So ladies, you see I've been paying REAL attention to the Games. HURHUR. Can't wait for 2012!
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