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[Caught in the Net] Olympic Fever

The XXIX Summer Olympic Games are underway in China, and the television and internet are filled with images of spunky gymnasts, dedicated marathoners, and, of course, swimmers who go so fast they appear to violate the laws of physics. What better way to celebrate sixteen days of athletic excellence than to look at pictures of nude and scantily-clad athletes?

Fleshbot got into the spirit before the Opening Ceremonies even began, collecting “20 Hot Summer Olympic Athletes”, with sexy shots of female athletes including soccer players, pole-vaulters, and fencers. (See me avoiding the obvious lewd jokes about the latter two sports? That’s because I respect excellence!) Fleshbot soon followed up with “21 Nude Olympic Athletes”, featuring athletes in the altogether, with lots of gymnasts and one trampoline gymnastics competitor — nude trampoline gymnastics would be just about the most perfect spectator sport ever invented, wouldn’t it? Though probably a bit rough on the athletes.

Porn sites, always happy to sexualize anything dominant in pop culture, have gotten into the Olympic spirit. Reality Kings organized — that is, paid some women to participate in — their 1st Annual Naked Olympics. While I applaud the idea, and appreciate topless wrestling, nude archery, and, uh, competitive three-way fucking while wearing horseback riding gear, I must quibble with their understanding of history; after all, the athletes in the early Greek Olympic Games competed nude, so the real 1st Annual Naked Olympics happened in, oh, 720 BC. I swear, sometimes it’s like gonzo porn sites don’t employ fact-checkers at all!

Some other porn sites celebrate athletic excellence all year long; like the Naked Gymnasts blog, which employs a rather broad definition of “gymnast” that includes, say, women tied up and bending over — but there are some real nude gymnasts, contortionists, and dancers celebrated there occasionally too.

Nude team sports are even more fun — consider this gallery of nude ladies’ basketball, and admire their spirit even as you wonder how they expect to compete at the highest level when they’ve only got four players on the court.

And, because I’ve been so female-centric in this post, I’ll leave you with video of some naked male basketball. All right, so it’s not exactly sexy. In fact, it’s only one naked guy, and he’s not pretty, and he uses his nudity as a weapon on the court. I think he’s a walking, talking, traveling personal foul, somehow made incarnate. But the slam dunk is pretty funny.

Until next time, “Citius, Altius, Fortius!” (That’s the Olympic motto — “Faster, Higher, Stronger” — for any non-Latin speakers out there.)

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