Archives for March 14th, 2006

What should we say about Tina Maze’s hotness? (source)

Slovenian athletes may have left the recent winter olympic games in Turin empty handed, but they were not without victory. Italy’s biggest newspaper, La Repubblica, hosted an online competition to find La più bella delle Olimpiadi ("the biggest beauty of the Olympics") and — thanks to the coordinated efforts of some patriotic Slovenes — the Slovenian skiier Tina Maze destroyed the competition. If you check the results, you’ll notice that she did better than the other nine contestants combined. A blow-out if there ever was one.

Although I’ll probably take a beating for this, I have to admit that I had a bad feeling about the whole thing. I mean, here are some of the world’s best athletes — all of them masters of their discipline — and a respectable newspaper wants to know which one of them is the hottest. They might as well ask which skiier has the tightest buns or looks best nekkid. (NSFW)

On the other hand, I’m not made of stone; I freely accept that Tina is teh hawt, and presume she has no problem being adored as such. Still, I felt a bit weird about it. 

But then Andrej saved the day by sending me an interesting link from the gay publication Outsports. In their story Hot Jocks of Torino, they gush over Slovenian athlete Andrej Jerman, with the great line: "Jerman did not do well in his Olympic events, like any of us care." Later they also write: "among the group I was watching with, a Slovenian athlete [Jerman] was the hands-down pick as the hottest athlete."

For some reason, this demonstration of equal-opportunity lust made me feel better about things. And the fact that two Slovenes triumphed in two separate publications also makes the catastrophic Olympic results seem a bit more palatalbe.

But just a bit.