Rachael Flatt, a 16-year-old with round, ruddy cheeks and uncontainable perkiness, did not win a medal for the United States at the world figure skating championships. But when she finished her long program Saturday night, she beamed and giggled. She placed fifth over all and was the top American woman. With the 2010 Vancouver Games [...]

Jessica Gomes-Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2009 Jessica Gomes is an Australian model of Singaporean Chinese and Portuguese heritage who appeared in the 2008 & 2009 Swimsuit Issue of the United States–published magazine Sports Illustrated. She was featured in a bodypainting layout as a canvas for bodypaint artist Joanne Gair, who is in her tenth year of [...]

Lucia Dvorska in her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit shoot for 2009 Lucia Dvorska is a Slovak model who appeared in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She was born in Bratislava, Slovakia. She was a contestant on the 2007 reality television show, A Model Life, hosted by Petra Nemcová on TLC.

Jenson Button won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, giving Brawn GP a victory in its first Formula One race. The Englishman led from start to finish, beating teammate Rubens Barrichello and Toyota’s Jarno Trulli, with the race finishing under caution following a late crash. Barrichello, a Brazilian, recovered after being slow off the [...]

When her score popped up on the monitor at the world figure skating championships on Friday, Kim Yu-na could hardly believe it. She buried her face in her hands. Her jaw dropped. Her coach, the two-time Olympic medalist Brian Orser, grabbed and shook her. In front of a crowd filled with South Korean fans waving [...]

The World Baseball Classic belongs to Japan again. Seattle Mariners star Ichiro Suzuki hit a two-out, two-run single in the top of the 10th, and Japan beat reigning Olympic champion South Korea 5-3 Monday night to win its second straight WBC title before a boisterous crowd of 54,846 at Dodger Stadium. The Japanese won the [...]

Video of Beautiful Vancouver British Columbia, home of the 2010 Winter Olympics. This is Vancouver, an amazing travel and vacation destination that boasts incredible scenery from the Mountains to the Ocean to Whistler and Blackcombe, the Sea to Sky Highway, the local snowboarding and ski mountains of Grouse, Cypress and Seymour, Stanley Park, long stretches [...]

Female ski jumpers continue to fight an uphill battle in their quest to compete in the Winter Olympic Games. In an attempt to advance their cause, two elite jumpers — Katie Willis of Calgary and 2009 world champion Lindsey Van of Park City, Utah — appeared at a Wednesday media conference in Denver to urge [...]

Amy Lyn Acuff (born July 14, 1975, Port Arthur, Texas) is an athlete from the United States. An aggressive high jump competitor, Acuff competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field and is a three-time Olympian. Her personal best is 2.01 m, which she achieved in Zürich on 2003-08-15. [...]

One the most sexy Olympic Beauty is Olympic champion Wu Minxia. Wu represented China at the 2004 Summer Olympics, earning a gold medal in the 3 meter women’s synchronized springboard along with Guo Jingjing before winning a silver medal in the 3 meter women’s synchronized springboard, coming in second place behind Guo Jingjing. China’s Olympic [...]