What Olympic athletes did you develop a crush on in the last 2 weeks?

[begin_within]

I think I actually developed a crush on a pair - both Tanith Belbin and the guy she skates with - can't remember his name, the guy who looks like an East L.A. drug dealer.

[jakefrep]

1. Jennifer Heil

the Canadian snowboarder.

[jakefrep]

33. A picture...

[KitchenWitch]

2. Pete Fenson - the Skip of the US Men's Curling Team!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

6. Me too

The secret's out!

[LostinVA]

9. I knew you were gonna say that!

[KitchenWitch]

37. What can I say, I am somewhat predictable!

[AllegroRondo]

12. Who was skip for the Swiss womens' team?

she was very cute - I loved her eyes.

[AllegroRondo]

14. Mirjam Ott

What a hottie!

[REDKING]

3. I have no idea what her name is.....

but there was a swedish girl who was just stunning.I dont even know what sport.

[JackBeck]

4. The Flying Tomato!

After he won the Gold, his media appearances from CNN to Ellen were hilarious! He was such a flirt with everyone.

[Ediacara]

20. totally!

I've a crush on Apolo Ohno too, but my boyfriend finds them both repelent...

[ScreamingMeemie]

47. Ewww! I haven't found him attractive since he was on those 7-11 cups

awhile back. Nice kid, but...

[grace0418]

5. Joey Cheek seems like a good guy.

I wouldn't necessarily say I have a crush but he's cute and seems very kind and intelligent. Watch, now someone's going to post a link to his right-wing hate blog. ;)

[CarolNYC]

28. Hehe

I love Joey too...What a great guy.

Your comment about the right-wing hate blog makes me laugh...In my post about Apolo last night, I wrote hoping no one had heard any quotes about him being "Bush people" or anything. :)

[grace0418]

29. Great minds, eh? I love Apolo too!

I have the feeling that if my husband and I ever have a son, he might look at bit like Apolo.

[CarolNYC]

42. lucky boy. ;) n/t

[ThomCat]

7. What, no pictures?

Come on people, if you're going to develop a crush, show us who you've got a crush on. :7

[ronnykmarshall]

8. Apollo !

[Patiod]

19. I would have loved that, back in the day

He's adorable. In a "I'm old enough to be his mother so it feels kind of creepy" way....

[CarolNYC]

26. Isn't he though?

I developed a major crush on Apolo during the last Olympics and fell in love all over again these past couple of weeks....(See my thread here from last night: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4808046)

He is adorable, a real sweetie, gracious, thoughtful, cute, those wonderful eyes....ah, and he can skate too. What's not to like? The world could do worse than to be filled with a bunch of men like Apolo. :)



And, although I truly love all of the figure skating events, that short track relay has got to be the coolest event of the games...Look at the number of skaters on the ice! I don't know how they keep track of what's going on.

[JI7]

55. he is so cute

adorable is how i would describe him also. you can't help but be happy for him when he won. there is no arrogance there. he is just a hard worker yet still so surprised and happy he won. he was just so sweet the whole time.

[Inspired]

30. Apolo Ohyes!

[Radical Activist]

32. He needs to wipe that turd off his chin

Its ugly and the trend was over a long time ago.

[CarolNYC]

41. aw.....

you're just jealous. :P

Actually, that soul patch doesn't do anything for me either...but, hey, if it works for him...I'm happy he 's happy.

Here's another pic...of him at the closing ceremonies....And doesn't he look happy?

[Dem2theMax]

44. Apolo here too. And even though I'm old enough to be his mother

I sure don't react that way when I see him. :evilgrin:

Someone mentioned his eyes and his smile. What about that posterior of his? Those legs. The hair.
(I LOVE long brown hair on a guy.) And on top of the looks, he's a wonderful human being.

Yep, I'm in lust with a 23 year old. And if he'd have me.... :evilgrin:

[CarolNYC]

49. OK, then, here's one for you.

:evilgrin:

I'm way too old too, BTW, but what the heck. ;)

[Dem2theMax]

56. Whooooo boy! So I'm here almost 24 hours later.

It was worth the wait! LOL. :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

I think I'll click and save that one! ;)

[CarolNYC]

59. haha! Glad you liked it...

BTW, the beautiful Apolo will be on Leno Thursday night and on Ellen DeGeneres on Friday....

I'm actually quite liking this picture right now...


Ahhh, I've got to quit with the Apolo obsession and get back to the real messed up world, I guess...But this is so much more fun...

[Dem2theMax]

61. LOL. I was just coming on here to tell you that he's going to be on Leno

Thursday night! (Great minds think alike, huh?) I didn't know about Ellen on Friday.
Have already made a note to tape both shows. Thank you!

And the heck with the real, messed up world. Apolo world has to be much more fun. :evilgrin:
There's room for all three of us. So stay. OK?

And I love that second pic as well. But I'm still saving the first one. ;)

[CarolNYC]

62. Hmmm....Apolo's world.....

....or Bush' messed up catastrophe?? Yes, gotta go with Apolo's world...hehe

There's a cute little promo video for Ellen's Friday show on this page:
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/thisweek/

Goodness, if Apolo flashed me that smile, I'd follow him anywhere. :)

Geez, one of these days I'm going to have to act my age.....or not. ;)

I've got Apolo watchers out there on the alert for any more appearances...I'll let know how if I hear anything else.

[Dem2theMax]

64. Oh, I promise, Apolo world will be a MUCH happier place. ;-)

Lookie what I just saw - all the way down at the end of the thread:

"Post # 60. Hey both Joey and Apolo are being honored
with the Wheaties box pictures this Olympics."

Time to buy cereal! LOL.

OK, I vote for you to NEVER act your age. (Just think, if you did run across Apolo and he was interested and you had sworn off the younger set, you'd want to kill yourself.) (Hey, a girl can dream, can't she?)

Put me on your buddy list so you won't lose how to find me when you get more Apolo info! LOL. ;)

[CarolNYC]

65. yep, yep, yep...

Looks like I might be having to have this Wheaties box in my kitchen soon. :)


I got you on my buddy list now so I won't lose you....

I think I agree with you on the acting your age thing...That would be no fun at all. And, yeah, I'm dreaming all the time. haha!

[Dem2theMax]

66. Wow. You found that pretty fast. LOL!

Yes, have to do some shopping on Saturday. Wonder how fast they will be in the markets?
I hate the cereal. Gets soggy real fast. I'll just keep the box. Hahaha.

Ditto to the buddy list. You are now on mine.

Hey, speaking of dreaming, I had a dream about Ben Afflec and Matt Damon last night. LMAO!
And I don't even like Ben. Matt on the other hand.... :evilgrin:

[imperialismispasse]

10. All right all right

I love my girlfriend but if I was single I have to say I wouldn't kick that Finnish figure skater out of bed for eating Åström Juustonjuoksutin...

[bumblebee1]

11. Bob

Tanith's partner is Benjamin Agosto. He slightly resembles my niece's boyfriend.


Some of my crushes:

Stephane Lambiel, Brian Joubert, Evan Lysacek, an Austrian skier named Felix Gottwald, Maritzio Margalio (sp)


it's great to rob the cradle!!!!

[begin_within]

22. Yes, that Evan Lysacek was one of the better looking ones in a while. And

Emanuel Sandhu even though he skated terrible he still looked great.

[CarolNYC]

27. Lambiel is a cutie too...

He's another of my crushes...


And, I've got to admit, although not exactly a crush, I do have a soft spot in my heart for the tomato kid. :)

[JVS]

13. All the female figure-skaters

[Catch22Dem]

38. At once

With skates on. :evilgrin:

[JVS]

43. Oh yeah!

[bullwinkle428]

15. Shelley Rudman - Silver Medalist in Skeleton from Great Britain

[Hell Hath No Fury]

16. The Olympics is great for crushes!

This year it's:

Joey Cheek (can he be my boyfriend??)
Benjamin Agosto
The Flying Tomato (what flirt!)
Johnny Weir (Hey, I'm a Hag!)
And the Italian guy who won the last cross country race and got his medal at the closing ceremony.

I already had a serious crush on Apolo Ohno after the last Olympics. :loveya:

[ronnykmarshall]

18. You have excellent taste!

I about spit when I read your 'hag' comment!

You are a Class AAA fag-hag! :loveya:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

23. Born in San Francisco...

and raised by my Mom's gay best friend and his partner. I'm a second generation hag! ;)

Seriously, as a straight gal I am nothing without my gay buds.

:woohoo:

I love Johnny Weir -- he's a truly beautiful skater and I appreciate completely his love and expression of his individuality. "Care Bears on acid" -- gotta love it!

[ronnykmarshall]

51. Why didn't I ever meet you when I lived in SF?

A queen can never have enough hags.

[Patiod]

21. My first was Bruce Jenner

I hung on every time he was on TV after seeing him warming up for the first event in the Decathalon.

I also remember sitting in the salon, paging through an "Olympic Preview" issue, and saying "I want that girl's haircut." Was the first kid in my junior high to have the "Hamil Wedge"

[Hell Hath No Fury]

24. Yup, everyone had that Hamill Wedge!

Sadly, I have thin, native amerian hair and the Wedge and I never got on. :cry:

[seemunkee]

17. Eva Lund

2nd from the right.

[Stockholm]

57. Yaaayy Curling rocks!

Here is something for you:

Team Norberg vs. Hammerfall (Girls team up with Swedish Metal Band "Hammerfall" to show that Curling is all Rock´n Roll)

http://www.httphost1.com/curlingtjejerna/Acuvue_Hearts_on_Fire_S.wmv (Windows Media Player)

http://www.httphost1.com/curlingtjejerna/Acuvue_Hearts_on_Fire_S.mov (Quicktime)

Hammerfall's website http://www.hammerfall.net/main.html

[SOteric]

25. Seth Wescott

Hubba.

http://www.snowboard-mag.com/img_assist/gen/1311

[SiobhanClancy]

31. Good taste..

he's a great guy,too:) Maine is very proud of him.

[nutsnberries]

40. I know him! I could fix you up!!!!!!!!!!!

no, not really.

i know his cousin though. :)

[Science Of Myth]

34. Somebody posted some hot pics of Sasha Cohen

but then I heard she might be a freep

Moral dilemma. What to do? Support the president plus hot chick or stick to principles...

[TennesseeRain]

35. She went ga-ga over him at the last Olympics. She called her mother on

her cell phone and handed the phone to Bush who was sitting next to her. She's been star struck by him ever since. Ick.

[Science Of Myth]

36. Awesome!

If she went ga-ga over a loser like Bush I have a chance, baby!

[Catch22Dem]

39. She would have been 17 at the time...

I need to know how she thinks now. I could let that slide if she had come to her senses. Either way, she's an amazing skater and can do things on the ice other competitive skaters can only dream about. Her level of difficulty is why she can fall twice and still take silver. I think a lot of people who don't understand the scoring fail to realize that.

Yeah, I'm a skating geek. My daughter competes.

[GalleryGod]

45. No. Sorry to disappoint all the Playa Haters.

She's a nice little (5'2") Hepburnesque jewish kid from Orange County California, who was born at the UCLA Med Center in 1984. Mom is a former Ukrainian ballerina and Dad is an L.A. lawyer.

The Famous cell phone call? As I preach to my students:

Context! Context! Context! She was 17. It was a mere 5 months after 9/11
the President was on the line. All the haters would've hung-up I s'pose.

[Ravenseye]

46. Women's Curling

Particularly the american team.


Also I was crushing on these three, even though one didn't make it.

[JohnnyCougar]

53. I'll second the womens curling team...

[ScreamingMeemie]

48. Absolutely not a one...

Not a good Olympics for my crush tastes. :hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

50. Eddie the Eagle!

Oh wait, wrong Olympics. Sorry!

[mvd]

52. None

But I don't get crushes on athletes very easily. I'm bigger on singers and actresses. I've developed big crushes most recently on Katharine McPhee from American Idol, Dominique Swain, singer Leslie Mills, and Maggie Grace (Maggie might go in my next crush list - forgot her in the current one.)

[petronius]

54. No crushes - all my Olympic attractions were one-night stands

But let me tell you, I did some very naughty things with a few of those skaters...

[Ava]

58. Joey Cheek

[CarolNYC]

60. Hey both Joey and Apolo are being honored

with the Wheaties box pictures this Olympics...Good choices both.

[Ron Mexico]

63. Tanith Belbin.

I'm happily married, but she puts the structural integrity of my Levis at severe risk.



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