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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.
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well yeah she’s hot, I mean damn I wish I looked like that naked again!
Interesting link to outsports. Great publication. I read the article by the gay ex-NFL Esera Tuaolo. Very interesting. He has managed to keep and even deepen his Christian Faith despite rejection and hate from other "christians".
Well, it doesn’t matter that La Repubblica is a respectable newspaper but that it’s an Italian newspaper.(the link to patriotic Slovenes doesn’t work)
It was the ancient Romas who said that tastes are not debatable (or something of the sort). But Tina Maze is definitely not hot. There were certain Norwegian and Russian athletes that should have taken the title by any measure
Like you, I feel a little better knowing that Jerman’s hotness was evaluated as well as Maze’s. But only a little. We haven’t achieved equal opportunity lust yet; that will happen when hot nearly naked guys are plastered all over magazines and billboards advertising Polzela hosiery etc. for the benefit of straight women. I expect hell to freeze over about the same time. In the meantime, this is about the hottest show on offer at the moment: firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006/03/fdl-photo-essay.html Not exactly erotic, but I guess it’s a start… Here’s a proposal for you: how about we have a contest for hottest male blogger in Slovenia? You guys put up your raciest photos of yourselves, and we women will be the judges. Michael, would you care to start the ball rolling?
Jean, I generally try to avoid contests in which I know I would finish last, but you may be onto something… (I fixed the patriotic link, which goes to our friend Luka — thanks for telling me, ipe!)
You are too modest. I’m sure you’d finish at least as well as you did at the expat bowling tournament.
You mean second-to-last? :)Sad, but true. There’s no competing with guys as handsome as Vidmar.
Maybe, but I’d like to know what he looks like in a G-string before I pronounce judgment!
JEAN - HEAR, HEAR!
OK, you ladies have fun whereas the rest of us sorry bastards will get together for a beer
I had something to say, I really did. Then I visited the Hot Jocks of Torino site and now I’ve completely forgotten what it was. But now I must run - I’ve got all of their websites to visit. I know, I know: it’s a dirty job, but someone has got to do it. After all, someone may be interested in doing a billboard.
Ha, ha, I’m glad the gender equality was applied. And since Michael started a competition in modesty in the comments, let me say the patriotic Slovenes have very little to do with Tina’s victory: more than 116.000 people voted in the poll (and it was not possible to vote twice from the same computer: I had to check that out empirically). As we know, that’s far more than Slovenia’s population …
Screw the modesty competition–we gals want to see a who’s the hottest dude competition! C’mon, what have you got to hide? Bare all!
Did anyone notice that in the above picture, Tina Maze has Siemen on her her chest.
@Jean: You want the full monty? I don’t think Michael’s server could handle such a load :)))
This is not the first Olympics in which Slovenians were heralded as the hottest athletes. I remember reading in an American newspaper raves about Brigita Bukovec’s looks, and of course more recently, the stunning Jolanda Ceplak.
Jolanda Ceplak looks more Swedish than an actual Swede how the Hell did that happen!@pengovsky, and Jean, I want the full Monty too!
Hi:Just saw you mentioned our Hot Jocks of Torino page, so thanks for the nice comment. Is Andrej Jerman popular? He was shown on US television during the Opening Ceremonies. Slovenia sounds like a great place to visit (I have friends you have been there and loved it).