RACK & FIELD 4 Chick with a Stick
YELENA ISINBAYEVA
8 High Jump Queen
BLANKA VLASIC
12 Javelin Tosser
LERYN FRANCO
16 Silver Racer
KIM GEVAERT
20 Built for Speed
SINA SCHIELKE
24 Keeping Up with the Jones
ZHANNA BLOCK NET ASSETS
28 Back to Back
KERRI WALSH
32 Ass and Bush Misty May
36 Greek Baring Gifts
CHRISTINA TSOUKALA
38 Lightning Striker Twice
GEMMA BEADSWORTH DIFF'RENT STROKES
40 2008 Gold in Singles
ELENA DEMENTIEVA
44 Double Gold Venus Williams
48 Double D's Serena Williams
52 Crotch Watch Maria-sharapova-athlete">Maria Sharapova
56 Volley for Serb Ana Ivanovic
60 She's Number One! Jelena Jankovic
64 Oh Baby! Ashley Harkleroad RISKY BUSINESS
68 Biker Chic
NIKI GUDEX
72 2008 Kayak Gold
NICOLE REINHARDT
76 2008 Fencing Gold
BRITTA HEIDEMANN WATER SPORTS
80 Medal-Winning M.I.L.F. Dara Torres
84 Triple Gold in Beijing
STEPHANIE RICE
88 Pool Porn
LAURE MANAUDOU
94 Nudes•N•Notes
EDITORIAL NOTE
"Nothing combines the beauty and athletic prowess of the Olympic Games,"
Coed Magazine mu.s.ed on the eve of the 2008 Beijing opening ceremonies, "like
female competitors showing off their finely tuned bodies without the unnecessary
hindrance of clothing. To celebrate the awesomeness of these perfect hUmma-porn-star">Uman specimens,
we've compiled the quintessential collection of every Olympian to ever strip off
her uniform!" Bolder dash...
"If you are watching the Summer Olympics and you are male," an online
observer noted this August, "your primary concern is getting to see as many
attractive women athletes as you can—or at least it should be. There are
just so many to see. And by `so many,' I mean a lot. Various sports blogs have
done a great job of documenting these attractive ladies, and because of their
efforts we know all about the Stephanie Rices fp. 84), Yelena Isinbayevas (next
page) and Leryn Francos (yowza!!!)"—pages 12-15—"of the
world. But because there are just so many babes in Beijing, it's hard to be comprehensive
in this endeavor." Just watch...
"This Olympic season has had its fair share of controversial episodes as
well," a reporter remarked halfway through the Games, "including several
German women athletes posing nude; the French swimming champ Laure Manaudou—whose
ex-lover leaked nude photos of her and world title holder in the highjump Blanka
Vlasic of Croatia enduring a candid topless scandal." And wouldn't you know,
we've struck gold with each of them!
Speaking of which, that's another thing that makes this mag unique: "Ultimately,"
Sports Illustrated Associate Editor Richard Deitsch declared, "you have to
be an athlete first, and a beauty second. But when you have someone who is fantastic
at both, then you are looking at a global brand!" That was also ourfirrn
priority: these are not merely models pretending to be accomplished athletes,
but rather jocks who deliver the shocks!
The Olympic compe•tit•ors we've ass•embled (T&A on the field
of play!) have won a combined 22 gold medals, 10 silver and 6 bronze! Not to mention
23 World and European Championships (not even counting the 34 Grand Slam victories
of the Williams Sisters, pp. 44-51) and set an eye-opening 75 world records in
the process! These lovely ladies can "do it"!
And they do: "NBC couldn't televise the most exciting action in the Olympics
in Beijing," the New York Post reported on August 24, "—the sexual
acrobatics of the young competitors in the Olympic Village! According to veterans
of the Games, the world's top athletes were hooking up for the full two weeks
of competition—with a final burst of sexual release on the eve of the Closing
Ceremonies!"
"Why do sporting men and women have such explosive libidos?" asked two-time
table tennis Olympian Matthew Syed of Britain. "I am not implying, for one
moment, that every athlete in Beijing is going at it. Just that 99% of them are!"
But "before we get all prissy," one reporter added, "it's worth
noting that in the original ancient Olympic Games, athletes competed in their
events naked." So what was good for the Greeks isrod to gander...
