Hockey's pinup girl ready to shine at Rio Olympics

CNN ^ | October 10, 2015 | By Matthew Knight and Leila Hussain

[MinorityRepublican]

ou could say Ellen Hoog is the model sportswoman.

As the star of the Dutch women's field hockey side, the 29-year-old has enjoyed a near perfect career.

Hoog has been part of teams that have won the Olympics and World Cup twice plus three European Championships, while she was named the 2014 International Hockey Federation Player of the Year.

Yet despite all this success, Hoog and her teammates are still arguably better known for how they look rather than their stick work -- an unofficial online poll before the 2012 London Olympics voted them the most beautiful team at the Games.

The news was greeted with understandable despair by gender equality campaigners, mystified as to why successful sportswomen continue to be exposed to casual sexism.

[MNJohnnie]

Well the Leftists can cheer up. The Muslims flooding into Europe will put an end to all this for them

[Vendome]

[Larry Lucido]

Not guilty.

[Vendome]

[Perdogg]

Baie mooi

[I Hired Craig Livingstone]

It’s racist that their team doesn’t have a proportionate amount of rag-wearing Middle Easterners.

[PGR88]

By today’s standards, women only achieve media success when they show themselves in public naked or in sexually alluring clothing.

Even Bruce Jenner, during his freakish “coming out” as a “woman” had to appear in lingerie for a magazine cover.

Yes, our society does have very low standards for women.

[I Hired Craig Livingstone]

Thankfully, low fertility rates and massive third world immigration will put an end to the pretty blonde lady curse of northern Europe.

[Vendome]

Ping....to refresh yer delicate eyes...

[Rodamala]

Dear God,

Thank you.

Your buddy,
Rodamala

[Hot Tabasco]

Hockey's pinup girl ready to shine at Rio Olympics

Here I thought some Montreal Canadien was "coming out".......

[Noumenon]

[Kirkwood]

She seems upset because someone took all of her furniture. Fortunately she still has her air pump.

[outofsalt]

I’d Puck ‘er.

[Dr. Sivana]

She seems upset because someone took all of her furniture. Fortunately she still has her air pump.

Yes, but she does have the man's watch the burglar left behind.

She must not be a great hockey player; all her teeth are in place.

[Vendome]

I wondered who was 1st....after me

[Vendome]

She’s a goalie, ergo she receives...

[Snickering Hound]

That's not how you hold a hockey stick.

[SaveFerris]

Where’s Holland?

No, that’s the Netherlands.

Then, who are the Dutch?

You said this would be better. A vacation from ourselves.

What about muttonchops?