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Olympians Strike Pinup Pose, and Avoid Setting Off a Fuss [w/ a few pics]
New York Times ^ | August 12, 2004 | JOE DRAPE

Posted on 08/12/2004 5:10:57 PM PDT by 68skylark

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Joerg Koch/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images The United States Olympic high jumper Amy Acuff posed nude for Playboy, as did four other women competing in Athens.

Photographs by George Holz/Associated Press Acuff also posed for photographs in FHM magazine's "Sexy Olympic Special!" edition.

1 posted on 08/12/2004 5:10:58 PM PDT by 68skylark
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To: 68skylark

The Times also offers one of their "interactive features" with more info and more images. I'm not sure how to post a link to that feature -- maybe someone else will do it. It looks good.


2 posted on 08/12/2004 5:12:17 PM PDT by 68skylark
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To: 68skylark
the only steroids she's on is ESTROGEN !!!!!

God Bless America...

3 posted on 08/12/2004 5:14:09 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
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To: 68skylark

Now, female athletes are showing off their bodies in nonsports magazines and making no apologies for it.

***
Skeezers


4 posted on 08/12/2004 5:19:01 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Never again trust Democrats with national security!)
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To: 68skylark

A bulemic android. Why on earth is Playboy interested in her? She couldn't make the cover of TIGER BEAT!


5 posted on 08/12/2004 5:21:54 PM PDT by sinkspur ("Who is the father of the Sons of Zebedee"?--Cardinal Fanfani)
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To: sinkspur

Gotta agree. Another 25 pounds and you'd have something to hold onto.


6 posted on 08/12/2004 5:24:00 PM PDT by NukeMan
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A bulemic android. Why on earth is Playboy interested in her? She couldn't make the cover of TIGER BEAT!

Tigers would want more meat than that! :o

7 posted on 08/12/2004 5:24:09 PM PDT by Frohickey
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To: 68skylark
Nothing surprising here. The Olympics is, for all practical purposes, a giant orgy. "Men's Journal" magazine did a detailed, several-thousand-word expose last month of how it's become little more than a party for the participants, especially since 98% of them have no actual chance at winning a medal anyway. They're there to screw and drink on other peoples' dimes.

It was fascinating reading. (It was so pleasant to learn that the Olympics routinely orders tens of thousands of condoms just for the athletes' use, and usually runs out.) Sadly, "Men's Journal" has no online archives, so the best I can do is provide a link to a Sydney Morning Herald article ripping off the MJ article.

Athletes achieve a personal best at sex


8 posted on 08/12/2004 5:24:57 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (we use the ¡°ml maximize¡± command in Stata to obtain estimates of each aj , bj, and cm.)
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HEY! Some of us likes 'em skinny...


9 posted on 08/12/2004 5:30:31 PM PDT by Felis_irritable
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They're there to screw and drink on other peoples' dimes.

Sounds like college.

10 posted on 08/12/2004 5:30:42 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Dont Mention the War
The Olympics is, for all practical purposes, a giant orgy.

Yeah, it may have been the same in ancient times also. I'm just very relieved (and happy!) that the focus has shifted from the old homoerotic images to the modern images of fit women.

11 posted on 08/12/2004 5:31:19 PM PDT by 68skylark
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To: Felis_irritable

Yes -- thankyou for making a very good point. I agree.


12 posted on 08/12/2004 5:32:11 PM PDT by 68skylark
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To: Dick Vomer

thanks for the thumbnail


13 posted on 08/12/2004 5:33:07 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: sinkspur; Felis_irritable

14 posted on 08/12/2004 5:38:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Who was Madame Binh's messenger boy?)
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HEY! Some of us likes 'em skinny...

There's skinny, and then there's bony.

15 posted on 08/12/2004 5:40:41 PM PDT by sinkspur ("Who is the father of the Sons of Zebedee"?--Cardinal Fanfani)
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To: BenLurkin

And sum likum GAY!!!!!!!!!


16 posted on 08/12/2004 5:44:43 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Bong Hits, Fraggle Rock Reruns and DU is no way to go through Life...........)
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To: 68skylark
Breast... Stroke...

Huh-huh Huh-huh Huh-huh...

17 posted on 08/12/2004 5:46:47 PM PDT by Ed Straker (I am not a number, I am a free man!)
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To: 68skylark

As I recall, athletes are given all the condoms they want during the Olympics as a way to promote safe sex (and better international relations?). Thousands were distributed in the last winter Olympics.


18 posted on 08/12/2004 5:47:15 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: sinkspur

"There's skinny, and then there's bony"

True, the diminishing return thing would apply here too.


19 posted on 08/12/2004 5:52:06 PM PDT by Felis_irritable
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To: Dont Mention the War

"They're there to screw and drink on other peoples' dimes."


They're salesmen?


20 posted on 08/12/2004 5:53:12 PM PDT by Blzbba (John Kerry - Dawn of a New Error.)
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