Man Candy Day: Golden Boys

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Last week I featured the pretty Olympic boys, but not always being pretty means being a good athlete... so this week I will feature the Golden Boys, those athletes who won a Gold Medal (sorry no teams, otherwise the list would be too long!). Anyway, true be told, they are almost all quite pretty, someone on their own way. And I tried to find a picture to feature them that was a bit more showing than a sport pic.


Ski Jumping - NH Individual & Ski Jumping - LH Individual (Double Golden Medallist)
Simon Amman (Switzerland)


Short Track Speed Skating - Men's 1500 m & Short Track Speed Skating - Men's 1000 m (Double Golden Medallist)
Jung-Su Lee (Korea)


Speed Skating - Men's 5000 m
Sven Kramer (Netherlands)


Biathlon - Men's 10 km Sprint
Vincent Jay (France)


Nordic Combined - Individual NH/10 km CC
Jason Lamy Chappuis (France)


Freestyle Skiing - Men's Moguls
Alexandre Bilodeau (Canada)


Luge - Men's Singles
Felix Loch (Germany)


Alpine Skiing - Men's Downhill
Didier Defago (Switzerland)


Snowboard - Men's Snowboard Cross
Seth Wescott (United States)


Cross-Country Skiing - Men's 15 km Free
Dario Cologna (Switzerland)


Figure Skating - Pairs
Hongbo Zhao (China) (with Xue Shen)


Speed Skating - Men's 500 m
Tae-Bum Mo (Korea)


Biathlon - Men's 12.5 km Pursuit
Bjorn Ferry (Sweden)


Cross-Country Skiing - Men's Individual Sprint Classic
Nikita Kriukov (Russian Federatio)


Luge - Doubles'
Wolfgang and Andreas Linger (Austria)


Speed Skating - Men's 1000 m
Shani Davis (United States)


Figure Skating - Men
Evan Lysacek (United States)


Alpine Skiing - Men's Super-G
Aksel Lund Svindal (Norway)


Skeleton - Men's
Jon Montgomery (Canada)


Speed Skating - Men's 1500 m
Mark Tuitert (Netherlands)


Freestyle Skiing - Men's Ski Cross
Michael Schmid (Switzerland)


Biathlon - Men's 15 km Mass Start
Evgeny Ustyugov (Russian Federation)


Alpine Skiing - Men's Super Combined
Bode Miller (United States)


Bobsleigh - Two-Man
Kevin Kuske (Germany)
Andre Lange (Germany)



Ski Jumping - Team
Gregor Schilierenzauer (Austria)
Thomas Morgenstern (Austria)
Andreas Kofler (AUstria)
Wolfgang Loitzl (Austria)


Figure Skating - Ice Dance
Scott Moir (Canada) with Tessa Virtue


Cross-Country Skiing - Men's Team Sprint Free
Petter Northug (Norway) also Cross-Country Skiing - Men's 50 km, Mass Start Classic (Double Golden Medallist)
Oeystein Pettersen (Norway)


Speed Skating - Men's 10000 m
Seung-Hoon Lee (Korea)


Alpine Skiing - Men's Giant Slalom
Carlo Janka (Switzerland)



Cross-Country Skiing - Men's 4x10 km Relay Classic/Free
Daniel Richardsson (Sweden)
Anders Soedergren (Sweden)
Marcus Hellner (Sweden) also Cross-Country Skiing - Men's 30 km Pursuit (15 Classic+15 Free) (Double Golden Medallist)
Johan Olsson (Sweden)



Nordic Combined - Team/4x5 km CC
Bernhard Gruber (Austria)
David Kreiner (Austria)
Felix Gottwald (Austria)
Mario Stecher (Austria)


Nordic Combined - Individual LH/10 km CC
Bill Demong (United States)


Freestyle Skiing - Men's Aerials
Alexei Grishin (Belarus)



Biathlon - Men's 4x7.5 km Relay
Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (Norway)
Emil Egle Svendsen (Norway) also Biathlon - Men's 20 km Individual (Double Golden Medallist)
Tarjei Boe (Norway)
Halvard Hanevold (Norway)


Short Track Speed Skating - Men's 500 m
Charles Hamelin (Canada)


Snowboard - Men's Parallel Giant Slalom
Jay Jasey Anderson (Canada)



Speed Skating - Men's Team Pursuit
Lucas Makowsky (Canada)
Mathieu Giroux (Canada)
Denny Morrison (Canada)


Alpine Skiing - Men's Slalom
Giuliano Razzoli (Italy)



Bobsleigh - Four-Man
Steven Holcomn (United States)
Justin Olsen (United States)
Steve Mesler (United States)
Curtis Tomasevicz (United States)

Comments

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

In most of the stories I've seen paired him up with Johnny Weir (who's also very pretty), but there are a few other cute/hot skaters here and there as well. :)

Angie

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

> In most of the stories I've seen paired him up with Johnny Weir

I can have guessed that. There is a story from Prizm Book, The Next Competitor, about a young gay skater who is training for Olympics and whose main competitor is another american slight older skater, not gay. In the end, the young gay skater finds love with another skater but looses Olympics and the other american skater wins. The book was out before the Winter Olympics, and it was real strange to notice how it practically described what really happened.

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

I've seen a number of fanfics which were pretty much like that. And note that I haven't actually read any skater-fics in... at least two or three years, so people have been writing that story since way before the recent Olympics.

But yes, it really wouldn't be hard for anyone who's followed skating for the last decade to come up with that basic plotline. Whether or not they've read (or written) skaterslash before, the rivalry (not necessarily personal, but the two of them battling it out for various titles) between Johnny and Evan has been obvious and inspiring, back when Johnny was on top of his game. I was sad that he didn't do better this time around, but he's always been very inconsistent; when he's on, he's wonderful, but when he's off he's all over the place. :/ When everything clicks for him, though, he's glorious.

Angie

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

That is true for the mahority of artist, and when a skater is on, he is an artist on ice. Elisa