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    Fourth-Place Medal

    Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue shines spotlight on Olympians

    By Chris Chase | Fourth-Place Medal – Tue, Feb 14, 2012 2:07 PM EST

    (Sports Illustrated)

    The Olympic-year edition of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue has a Summer Games vibe. Five Olympians, including 2008 history-maker Michael Phelps, are featured in the pages of SI's annual issue, which hit newsstands on Valentine's Day.

    [Photo gallery: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover revealed]

    Fellow swimming gold medalist Natalie Coughlin also made an appearance, as did basketball player Chris Paul, soccer star Alex Morgan and 2008 Olympic tennis champion Rafael Nadal.

    (Sports Illustrated)

    Phelps, Paul and Nadal were featured in the "Bar & The Boys" pictorial, which matched up the famed athletes with Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli.

    (SI)

    Morgan (below) and Coughlin were in a spread that showed female athletes in body paint. The soccer star told SI.com that she was more nervous for her photo shoot than she was for last year's World Cup final against Japan. "I have been playing soccer my entire life," she said. "I know how to stay calm and not get too nervous for games. It was a completely new experience and definitely took some getting used to before I felt comfortable in body paint."

    (SI)

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    • Pelly
      Pelly  •  3 months ago
      For all you people, it is call unconscious prejudice. A example is Romeo Must Die. There was suppose to be a screen with Jet Li kissing Aaliyah in the movie. However, when this was suggest to random people to see the reaction. Most of the people actual said they were uncomfortable with a Asian dude kissing a African American. Yet, people have no trouble with a White or Black person kissing a Asian women on the movie screen. This world is still racist no matter what. The perfume will just cover up the smell, but can never remove the dog poop.
      "The more things change, the more they stay the same."-French Proverb.
    • Mirα hates OCG
      Mirα hates OCG  •  3 months ago
      Is it just me or am I parnoid? When you see interaccial couples being shown in the media and all it's forms. It's usally BM/WW. I don't get it? Why never asian women white man, hispanic women Asian men, Asian men black women, black women white men. You NEVER see these parings? Why?

      Come on, don't tell me you haven't notcied that this parining is evident in magazines. I see it all the time in womens magazines. I'm not bashing this paring, all I'm saying is, they seem to be the face of interracial.
    • boy
      boy  •  Manila, Philippines  •  3 months ago
      idiotssssssssss...why no black woman and whitesssssss
    • Name
      Name  •  3 months ago
      how come the media always promotes white women with black men, but never black women with white men.
      • Derek B
        Derek B 3 months ago
        cause black women don't date white men...although that's just a guess
      • Wilbur
        Wilbur 3 months ago
        Open your eyes!!!!
      • Thomas B
        Thomas B 3 months ago
        according to what I hear from people like YOU...all of you think there is no such thing as an attractive black woman....besides, if those two in the picture actually got together, a really cute baby would be made.
    • Dale
      Dale  •  3 months ago
      why do we always have the /vigger with the white girl?
    • PuffPuffPass
      PuffPuffPass  •  San Francisco, California  •  3 months ago
      chris chase you my friend are the reason i have road rage
      • Libertarian
        Libertarian 3 months ago
        Maybe it's all the schwagg you guys smoke in san fran

        step up your game
      • PuffPuffPass
        PuffPuffPass 3 months ago
        step up your game? or step your game up? you must be a white person.
    • Etheldreda
      Etheldreda  •  New York, New York  •  3 months ago
      we need a "Dislike" button for the article.
      • T-Rey
        T-Rey 3 months ago
        this aint youtube
      • Purple Planet
        Purple Planet 3 months ago
        why? you don't like girls?
      • Jason D
        Jason D 3 months ago
        John do you really think anyone in a sports illustrated swimsuit issue is a realistic representation of a typical female? ...or male? Or are you just into airbrushes?
    • señor walnuts
      señor walnuts  •  3 months ago
      why chris? why not just leave the guys out and only post pictures of the ladies?
      • Schultzstaffel
        Schultzstaffel 3 months ago
        Chris and the men have a thing going on I believe...
      • Ernie
        Ernie 3 months ago
        I agree but you have to balance the show to be fair.
    • USAmiltinho
      USAmiltinho  •  3 months ago
      Same old black or white crap !!!! Sick people !!!
      • shet7968
        shet7968 3 months ago
        what? they are just portraying how it is. black guys like white girls better :/
    • iamhayabusa
      iamhayabusa  •  Hong Kong, Hong Kong  •  3 months ago
      Black men inside white women are an awesome sight! Haha!
    • Freedom of Speech
      Freedom of Speech  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 months ago
      I find it Fascinating that the same Black men that HATE Whitey..........
      sure seem to LUST after White Women!
      Hypocrites!
    • Phil Blog
      Phil Blog  •  3 months ago
      Can't anybody just enjoy the beauty of a woman's body without getting religious and racist? Save that for another blog, and just sit back and enjoy the lustful intentions of good ole SI.
    • Monty
      Monty  •  3 months ago
      Oh boy, I can't wait NOT to buy it at my local news stand.
    • Your alias doesn't ma ...
      Your alias doesn't ma ...  •  3 months ago
      Stop trying to argue by stating "Bar Rafaeli is Israeli, not white." Listen, ignoramuses, she is still considered WHITE.
    • Pilsman
      Pilsman  •  Albany, Georgia  •  3 months ago
      Why would I buy this rag? I don't want to see guys in the swimsuit edition.
    • Brandon
      Brandon  •  Dallas, Texas  •  3 months ago
      I hope Chris Chase dosent go anywhere. The comments on his articles help me get thru the morning.
    • Whatever
      Whatever  •  Kathleen, Georgia  •  3 months ago
      Ladies don't have enough of derriere. Too flat, not my taste...
    • Miklo
      Miklo  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 months ago
      There were guys in those pictures?
    • v
      v  •  Montreal, Canada  •  3 months ago
      I saw the comment of a guy (Egami) and I can stop laughing but it is truth. Black men don’t like black women because they look like gorillas. And I should ad, if you are white and have a black boyfriend that is your future, you will have kids that look like chimpanzees.
    • Doug
      Doug  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  3 months ago
      Bar Rafeli does a photo shoot with three olympians. One of these three olympians happens to be black (i.e., of a different ethnicity than Bar Rafeli). Idiots proceed to go apeshart over having an "interracial" image "forced down their throats." And people say this country is getting past racial prejudice? HA.
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