Posted on 02/12/2010 9:58:41 PM PST by pissant
Days after her controversial Sports Illustrated cover hit newsstands, American skiing sensation Lindsey Vonn is back on the pages of the venerable sports magazine.
Vonn, a favorite to win three gold medals at next week's Winter Olympics, is featured in a multi-page photo spread in SI's annual swimsuit issue, which was released Tuesday. Inside the issue (and online at SI.com), there are pictures of Vonn in a ski chalet, sitting in a sauna, standing on the slopes and posing with a rescue helicopter, all while wearing various bikinis, of course.
If you were one of the misguided few who were upset with Vonn's semi-suggestive cover pose, then these 45 swimsuit pictures are likely to fan the flames even more. Calls of objectification and sexism by the media will doubtlessly intensify. It's a tired refrain though.
Vonn isn't a good looking athlete, she's a great athlete who happens to be good looking. She's Chris Evert, not Anna Kournikova. (The latter once posed for SI, the former did not.) By the end of these Olympics there's a reasonable chance Vonn will become one of the most decorated American Winter Olympians of all time. It will have everything to do with her athletic ability and nothing to do with how attractive she is. So she looks good in a swimsuit. Why shouldn't she use that to help market herself?
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Well, that would probably be enough to send me off to the big CommSta in the sky.....or, do the “Devil’s work”, but afraid it would be one of my ‘last acts’.....
You didn't happen to be typing that with only one hand, did you?
...d@mn touch-typists...
Cheers!
I’d hit it.
Lucky guy.
Cute hat.
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