Let's face the facts...professional female swimmers have some of the hottest, most buff and bikini ready bodies of all professional athletes in the world.
Plus, they tend not to be shy about showing what they spent years and years in the pool developing.
Unlike some of our other polls including the hottest female athletes and the hottest triathletes it was not all that difficult to finding hot photos of the current crop of pro female swimmers...especially with the Swimming World Championships in full swing in Rome.
After the current swimming World Championships Michael Phelps will swim no more unless the current swimsuit rules are changed...this according to his longtime coach Bob Bowman.
"I’m done with this. It has to be implemented
immediately. The sport is in shambles right now and they better do
something or
they’re going to lose their guy who fills these seats,” Bowman recently
said, and it seems like FINA, the governing body of swimming, was
listening.
According to the Associated Press FINA took Bowmen seriously and
will move up the implementation of new swimsuit rules that would ban
the latest crop of high tech swimsuits and allow only the "old school"
fabric swimsuits from spring of next year to January I of 2010.
That's the question that Michael Phelps was faced with this weekend.
Would
the swimming superstar rather rest up for his individual 100-meter
butterfly final in Rome on Saturday night or go and hang out with the
Pope at Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer place near Rome?
Pope
Benedict XVI had invited about a hundred swimmers from the World
Championships taking place in Rome to visit with him on Saturday
including American swimmer Michael Phelps.
Chicago, Ill –July 31, 2009 – A sold-out field of 18,000 runners will take to the streets of downtown Chicago for the first running of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicago Half Marathon on Sunday, August 2. Formerly known as the Chicago Distance Classic, the 13.1-mile race course will include live bands at 14 entertainment stages interspersed with themed water stations and cheerleaders along each mile of the route.
“The downtown course and timing of the event have made the Chicago race one of the most anticipated Rock ‘n’ Roll events across the series,” said Elizabeth O’Brien, General Manager of the event. “The local community has always welcomed the half-marathon with open arms and we are excited become a part of the tradition of the Distance Classic and show Chicago how fun a Rock ‘n’ Roll event can be.”
Like snowflakes in December, the world records just keep falling at the 2009 swimming world championships in Rome.
1:54.10...that's Ryan Lochte's new 200-meter IM world record.
1:54.23...that's the old time and former world record help by Michael Phelps.
Phelps had owned the world record since 2003, and had lowered it seven times.
You
know that when the record books are written there will always be an
asterisks behind all of the world records set in Rome in 09 which will
read something like this:
Morgan and I swam across to the far beach and back.ZenTri went to the West Coast to visit coaching client Morgan and tear up the triathlon mecca of San Diego. We had a blast swimming in the Pacific, mountain biking, and running around the famous Fiesta Island.
I recorded audio from the trip and put together a great show, even wedging in some new music! Check out the shownotes below for the details.
Swimmer Federica Pellegrini proclaimed that she was the greatest Italian athlete ever after setting the tenth world record in the 200-meter freestyle at the world swimming championships in Rome.
"With today's world record, I've had 10 world records before I'm 21.
I've won an Olympic gold medal, two world championship gold medals
here. So, I think so," she told reporters at a news conference when asked if she was the greatest Italian athlete ever.
"Without any false modesty, I didn't think there were any doubts about that as of a few world records ago. There you have it," she went on to say.
The swimming world is back to normal now that Michael Phelps has won the 200-meter butterfly in record time and cruised to the win over a second and a half ahead of everyone else.
Phelps set the new world record 1:51.51 lowering his own world record of 1:52.03 and he did so wearing only leggings only with nothing fancy to aide his swim time like one the the new high tech full body swimsuits.
American swimmer Ricky Berens is a Beijing gold medalist and now he's also an internet sensation since he revealed his tush at the the swimming world championships in Rome this weekend.
Berens was swimming the 4x100 relay but shortly before stepping onto the starting block Berens stretched and tore his suit.
The University of Texas swimmer said, "I kind of freaked out for just a second,I felt like
[the split] was almost down to my knees. I felt like I was putting on a
pretty good show."
It seems just a couple of years ago that talented young swimmers would spend years chasing the black line down the pool lane in hopes of dropping a second or two when it came to race day.
OK, so it was just a couple of years ago that Speedo opened the Pandora's Box when, with the help of NASA of all things, the Australian company designed and introduced the LZR speed suit.
Take a look at the quaint video below from the early days as the world is still all excited about the prospects of the new faster and revolutionary swimsuit.
Now fast forward to today and well over 100 new swimming world records later, and no one is excited.
You probably already know that Alberto Contador after winning the Tour de France started all of this brouhaha by saying to the Spanish media about Lance Armstrong:
"My relationship with Armstrong is nil."
and
"He's a great champion, and he had a great race in this Tour, but it's
something else on a personal level, where I've never had a great
admiration for him, and I never will."
German swimmer Paul Biedermann not only beat Michael Phelps but also shattered the American's world record in the 200 meter freestyle final at the swimming world championships in Rome.
Biedermann, who was seeded number one going into the final, smashed Phelp's world record of 1:42.96 set at the Beijing Olympics by swimming the event in 1 minute, 42 seconds.
Fat is the enemy of endurance and now it seems that fat is also the enemy of the national budget.
Being Obese is getting pretty expensive and we're all paying for it according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the tune of $147 billion in 2008.
Most of that money goes to treating obesity-related diseases.
Back in 2008 the bill for being fat was only 74 billion in 1998, according to a study by federal government
researchers and RTI International, a nonprofit research institute in
Research Triangle Park, N.C.
After three weeks of racing it was Spanish Rider Alberto Contador
who was the winner of the 2009 Tour de France with the rest of the
podium places looking like this:
1. Alberto Contador Astana
2. Andy Schleck Team Saxo Bank
3. Lance Armstrong Astana
"TdF
done. Happy! Having some drinks with the greatest of all time, Eddy
Merckx, Lance Armstrong recently wrote on Twitter and posted this
photo."
