LA Dopers, don’t forget to celebrate “Kim Yu-Na Day” this August 7th!
I do too, however, it seems like most of them are about 13 years old, so watching their competitions makes me feel like a dirty old perv. :eek:
I can’t name any, but it’s not just you.
Robot Arm—you’re a hot woman curler? Pix, or I call bullshit.
At least they got #1 right.
Figure skaters are usually of age, so it’s not pervy to lust after them. It still doesn’t really seem to fit the spirit of the thread, though, since figure skating is an aesthetically-judged sport, and therefore naturally tends to favor attractive performers. It’s not that much more interesting than listing attractive actresses.
While it may be aesthetically judged it sure as hell is a sport. Megan Fox may be beautiful but I’m guessing she can’t skate backwards into a triple toe loop and then keep jumping and spinning and doing tricks for four and a half minutes.
True dat. Of course, I did most of my gymnastics watching in the early '90s, when the Soviet-bloc gymnasts in particular had apparently been subjected to puberty-suppressing drugs, so a lot of them looked younger than they were. Svetlana Boginskaya was born in 1973, so she at least would have been 18+ by the time I was watching her. Nicole Bobek was born in '77, so she too would have been 18 in 1995 when I first saw her.
Didn’t the Olympics finally raise the minimum age for competitors a few years back? Isn’t it like 16 now?
Training at that level tends to supress puberty/menstruation for athletes in any sport plus gymnastics will self select for the small of stature.
The list is blocked for me at work so I can’t actually see the heat.
However, I’d probably still put Katarina Witt at places 1 thru 5 all by her lonesome.
I’ve been arguing this point for years. It’s annoying to me that the idea of her being shit is so widespread. Just because she became known a sex symbol rather than a player she was labled as being crap and only good looking.
Please enlist me in the “No Credibility” Corner. Anna is 5x hotter than Maria. Sorry.
True, and I didn’t mean to imply otherwise, but you’re also not going to get very many female figure skaters who look like a man in drag, like you often will in other sports (especially back in the days of the Soviet Union).
Note to self: go watch more (any?) ice dancing.
'Nother vote for Alison Stokke, I mean, good lord :eek: (Just an aside: Why all the super hawt pole vaulters? The one mentioned earlier w/ the butt, & others)
Honorable mentions to Gabrielle Reece & Lisa Leslie, not necessarily in that order.
(Yeah I know: I’m sure they’re heartbroken at coming in second/third on* my *list! :D)
No, but two-out-of-three ain’t bad.
A vaulter combines the speed of a sprinter and the power and agility of a gymnast.
She threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Texas Rangers game I was at a few years back. She did not, to say the least, throw like a girl … Frankly, after seeing the performance the pitching staff put in that game, I thought maybe Washington should have left her in.
Oooooooo! Katarina, how could I forget her. She had that element of danger as well. There was always the chance of her Stasi handler bursting in on you and dragging you off to the gulag, or DDR equivalent.