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This is the same Sally Gunnell, no? :dubious: Wow. What high standards those comedians must have. All dating high-profile supermodels and actresses, were they? Judging from that and other photos, she’d be far from the first person I thought of when asked to name an ugly Olympic athlete.
That said, Rulon Gardner’s pretty homely. And he knocked off the world champ 4 years ago in a David-and-Goliath style upset. That’s excelling.
You’re kidding, right? Egads, maybe you’re that NBC exec who decided everyone in America wanted to spend the Olympics watching beach volleyball 24/7. Most of the women athletes don’t have breasts or waists. Instead, they have a long, rectangular, muscular section which stretches from under the neck down to the beginning of the legs. The faces range from plain to good (not great), and some of the tans look extremely unhealthy. They might seem attractive to some people because, these days, any woman who has 15% body fat or less is considered hot, even if her face would make dogs howl and horses shy away.
Some of the men are cute, but the vast majority look plain and boring. Also, those perfectly square pectoral muscles give me the creeps.
I respect all the work the athletes have put in, but looking at their faces just shows how much attractiveness doesn’t count, it’s all about skill and training.
Moved to IMHO.
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Speaking of which, I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be in a relationship with a hardcore Olympic athlete. How interesting could it be?
“What did you do today, honey?”
“Swam up and down the pool.”
No kidding. When I was in college, I did a lot of swimming. I talked to somebody on the actual swim team, and his daily schedule was something like…
Really freaking early: Get up. Go to school. Swim a bunch of laps.
Breakfast: Eat like a starved wolverine.
Morning: Classes.
Lunch: Eat like a starved wolverine.
Afternoon: Classes. Sleep through several.
Return to pool. Swim a bunch more laps.
Dinner: Eat like a starved wolverine.
Evening: study for a couple hours. Sleep.
I watched the 1500 meters last night because I ran track in high school.
They’re not ALL attractive. 
Beach vollyeball on the other hand…
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One of the German gymnasts looked remarkably like a dorky 12-year-old. He had the glasses and everything.
I’m not saying he is ugly by any stretch, but his appearance did make me laugh. He just looked like he should have been in a movie about kids building a nuclear bomb in their basement with spandex and a pack of Mentos.
OTOH, if the athlete looked this good in bed, would you really mind if all he’d done that day was swim a bunch of laps? 
(Apologies for recycling a pic I’d posted in the “Olympic Hotties” thread.)
Are you kidding? Did you get a glimmer of those Brazilian players? Woofers, both.
Perhaps I haven’t yet shared with y’all my theory on ‘the average man’s perception of female hotness’. It goes like this: Any woman (ANY) can be perceived as hot by a majority of men if she just works out and gets her body in (near)perfect shape. Shorter version: Any woman can be hot if she works out enough. I like to use as my prime examples Jeri Ryan and Tori Spelling. Both are perceived by many men as being hot-as-balls. However, if you just look at their face, you will realize that they’re not that pretty. Also, neither one has particularly large breasts (but that’s really so 1980’s, isn’t it?)
Now then, if you add to that the fact that most of these women have great asses (naturally), ignore the fact that they have no boobs (again, an 80’s fad), and, probably almost-the-most importantly, that they all have confident, and generally upbeat, personalities, you find yourself (speaking as a guy here) looking at most of these women thinking “I want to marry her”.
On a side note, I kind of prefer watching women’s beach volleyball to gymnastics. Part of the reason is that, since the volleyball players tend to be a little older, I feel a little less dirty lusting after them.
slap. I challenge you to a duel!
Actually, one of the Australian beach volleyballers was a little tubby. Made her stand out from all the other people on the court and made her more attractive :).
Was it Jimmy the Greek?
Obviously he or she has never seen Randy Johnson or Otis Nixon. That would drag your average down right there.
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There’s just no pleasing some people.
Ftr, I have never heard a guy say he thinks Tori Spelling is hot. She’s just busted, poor thing.
I think most of the Olympians are nice to look at because of their fit bodies, etc. However, I’ve seen some really unattractive women in the track and field events. The Greek girl who won last night is just not attractive. Great athlete, but her face looks like a man.
Speaking as a heterosexual male, I have to say that the male Olympians are more attractive than the women Olympians in general. Athleticism and a muscular, masculine body are seen as desirable traits in a male and it works very well for them. Women, on the other hand, look unnatural and manly when they are overly athletic - especially in the very physically intense activities like weightlifting, sprinting, shot put, judo, etc. Though there are exceptions - most female tennis players have attractive feminine figures, as do divers and swimmers.
Overly strenuous activities release testosterone, so it makes sense that women engaging in certain events develop a manly look which most don’t see as sexually appealing.
Speaking as a heterosexual male, how would you know?
I don’t know which olympics you guys have been watching. With the exception of a few of the S.African women hockey team, Carly Patterson, possibly the Russian springboarder, a couple of the Italian women’s swimteam and some of the dutch women’s soccer team - who the hell are you referring to?
For example, rate the Greek star who won the women’s 200m (?) hurdles. Fali something or other.
I’d give her a 5 and no more.
My buddy says she’s a 10++++++. But then he’s Greek.
I’ll see your Chinese weightlifter and raise you a Thai weightlifter. She won gold in the superheavyweight division a few days ago.
