Looks like a volunteer has stepped up.

Results to be posted.

I meant an Eddie Cat taste test not a tiger cat!

The hottie is the Russian javelin thrower Sergey Makarov:

I like!!!

I love the salt/pepper hair.

Records and eye-catchers in Stuttgart

Cuban Dayron Robles 7.36 minutes was a world-best time in the men’s 60m Hurdles, a Central American and Caribbean record

Russian Yuriy Borzakovskiy (not Jeremy Wariner )was easily the superior man in the Men's 800m

But the big surprise

Britain's Chris Tomlinson exploded with a British record 8.18, a world-best for the season

A really cool shot of Mr. Tomlinson, who we may need to get to know a little better


And the mandatory pitstop

Some of my favorite photos of some good old stanbys

Kerron Clement assumes the position

The perfect body

In perfect position

Even better facing the other way

Felix Sanchez innocently extending his hand...to congratulate him of course

A body the ancient Greeks would have loved

The embraceable Periklis Iakovakis

The national colors suit him well

Leaning to make it look good

Well done Sportinlife!

For bringing back some truly beautiful men to the website.

Maybe it was just the Winter "Blues" but I was becoming very, very weary of all those over-muscled,over-padded, spotty-faced American Football players!

Good to see some true masculinity.........Robles, Clement, Sanchez and Iakovakis.

Thank you! cheered me up no end!

Just wish Chris Tomlinson would get a haircut!

Superman UK.

OooooH Superman! Knowest thou not that this is the holiest day of that peculiarly American cult: Superbowl Sunday...#42 to be precise. Luckily you are safely on the other side of the Big Pond.

Thanks Sportinlife!

I accept the smack on the hand in all humility!

Had realised it was the Superbowl weekend!

But tell me this........why do so many of the American Football guys look as if they have just stepped out of the "Deliverance" movie? And I am not talking Jon Voight or Burt Rernolds either!!!!!!

Superman UK.

Linus Thörnblad is the (almost) best Swedish highjumper.


Over a year ago, the above picture was used in the cover of Sweden’s largest gay magazine QX.

Linus did an underwear modelling photo session with them. In an interview published in the same issue, Linus said he was actually sorry he wasn’t a gay athlete because he new there was so much to see in the showers going totally wasted on him...
He doesn’t have anything against becoming a new gay icon in Sweden, and he thinks admiration by gays is a lot more flattering because ”gays are very petty and they are the real experts when it comes to good looks”.
His dream - besides the high jump career- is to become something like the Swedish football star and Calvin Klein model Freddie Ljungberg.

I think Linus would have all the right qualities required for that job too:


Linus going up

Linus coming down

Linus celebrating

Linus in 2004 in Italy with two training buddies (Niklas Wiberg, left, and Johan Carlsson, right)


Linus’ homepage with more pictures (go to 'Galleri')

Thörnblad may not have Ljunberg's curvaceousness, but he's cute when he does this Brokeback Mountain look. That's gayer than he would probably think.

Okay, he's a good-looking guy, but I think Europeans look hilarious when they try to do the cowboy look. They just don't get it quite right. To quote Sydney Poitier's character from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? "You can dance the Watusi, but we are the Watusi."

I was miffed about this story about how French long-jumper Samil Sdiri feels bitter about his treatment by Finnish javelin tosser Tero Pitkämäki.

Apparently Sdiri will find it very difficult to make the Beijing Olympics perhaps due to the physical and psychological injury from that accident.

So I'm calling on Tero to very publicly kiss and make up with Salim. Not so difficult a task, eh?


It's the least he could do to avoid a second stab in the back of a fellow athlete.

I will humbly offer my very modest services as photographer to record that momentous event.

The 12th IAAF World Championships in Indoor Athletics were held in Valencia, Spain at Palau Velodrom Lluis Puig last weekend. Some highlights:

Olusoji Fasuba (NGR) celebrates after winning the 60m

Tyler Christopher (CAN) won ahead of Johan Wissman (SWE) and Chris Brown (BAH) the men's 400m
(Somehow Tyler reminds me of George Michael, when he was younger and healthier...)

Wojciech Chybinski (POL), Adrian Findlay (JAM) and Marc Orozco (ESP) await the baton exchange on the final leg of 4 x 400m relay heat

Godfrey Mokoena (RSA) on his way to winning the men's long jump

Martial Mbandjock (FRA) in the men’s 60 m

Salim Sdiri (FRA) in men's long jump

Welcome back Finneye!

It did me the world of good to see some track and field "beauties" from the World Championships!

You taste is exquisite as always!

Fasuba is SO cute!
Mokoena is dynamic in the right regions!
Tyler Christopher is a hunk and much, much better-looking than George Michael!
The young Spaniard awaiting the baton in the 4 x 400 Relay is magnificent! That body!! Pheeew!

There were so many pleasures at the meeting.

Did you manage to take photos of Robles, the Cuban high-hurdler?

Go For It Finneye!

Thank you!

Superman UK.

Finneye, I agree with Superman. The Canadian sprinter Christopher: HOT.
The French sprinter Mbandjock and long-jumper and bootylicious Sdiri: HOT.
The South African jumper Mokoena: HOT.
The Nigerian sprinter Fasuba: HOT.

More, por favor!

More highlights from the WC in Valencia:

The magnificent Nelson Evora of Portugal during the qualification for the Men's Triple Jump

Cuba's Dayron Robles, one of the strongest favorites in the Men's 60m hurdles, realizing too late it wasn't a false start after all, runs far behind China's Xiang Liu (gold in the final) and Latvia's Stanislavs Olijars (bronze in the final) and fails to qualify for the semifinal

Dayron in distress

¡Qué mala suerte!



Cuba's Wilfredo Martinez makes an attempt during qualification for the Men's Long Jump

Nigeria's Olusoji Fasuba performs during a Men's 60m heat

Portugal's Francis Obikwelu performs during a Men's 60m heat

South Africa's Godfrey Mokoena makes an attempt during the Men's Long Jump final - he won gold

Finneye you are a STAR!

Thank you so much for featuring some of my personal favourites and some of the most beautiful men in Track & Field at the present time.

Martinez the Cuban long-jumper is new to me but an amazingly handsome man.

Evora, Robles, Mokoena.........all superbly "equipped" and just poetry in motion!

Keep up the excellent work.

It is a pleasure to view and admire your superb choices of fantastic manhood.!

So sad that Robles was denied the opportunity to face Liu Zhiang in the 60 metres hurdles final. It would have been really "hot!"

Superman UK.

Apropos, Colin Jackson.


Gay or not - as far as I am concerned, he could have answered the "gay-question" as did the sci-fi-writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke, recently diseased at 90: "No, merely mildly cheerful."

Anyhow Colin (left in the above picture) looks superb and has got good taste with buddies as well (in this case Linford "the lunchbox" Christie).

There is nothing gay in this picture either

...nor in this one...

And here Colin is just admiring swimmer Mark Foster's tan

Oh, if there is anyone wondering how Colin's training buddy Linford got the nickname 'lunchbox'

these pictures should provide sufficient evidence for that matter

(If the links won't open properly at the first attempt, try refreshing the view by hitting F5)

Hi Finneye!

Thanks for the pictures of Linford and Colin.

As a "Brit" I too am extremely disappointed with Colin and his refusal to answer the "gay or not question!"

Mark Foster, the swimmer, apparently "came out" some time ago and is it not coincidental that he and Colin shared a home together for some time?

I, like many others, do not have any qualms regarding whether Colin is in fact gay or not.........but my God, how fantastic it would be if in fact he was, and had the courage to admit it. The impact that would have on World Athletics, never mind UK Athletics would be immense!

Oh, and to be anecdotal, I actually taught and coached Linford when he was a mere eleven years old at his Junior School in West London. We still speak when we bump into each other near our respective homes in that part of London. A true icon of UK Athletics!

Cheers!

Superman UK.

Had a great photo of Foster some time ago but didn't save the link unfortunately.

Here he looks like he's holding the world's biggest condom dispenser

A happy threesome at the Mark Foster testimonial

Hi Sportinlife.

Cheers for the pictures of Mark Foster (condom and all!!!!) and Colin Jackson.

Again, coincidences continue to mount! The third athlete in the photograph is in fact David James, goalkeeper for English Premiership Football team, Portsmouth. David is an interesting guy.......happily married but with an incredibly positive and empathetic approach to gay men and gay sportsmen particularly. Frequently asked if he is in fact gay himself, David is quite happy to state that whilst he is not gay, he has many gay friends and has no problem whatsoever, competing with and accepting gay footballers into his squad. In fact he has also said that he feels that if gay footballers in the English Premiership would only "come out" the sport itself would be far healthier and inclusive.

David also did some magnificent photo-spreads for Armani underwear. Or was it Versace? Whatever, he looked pretty handsome.

So come on Colin..........dig deeper and more honestly!

Superman UK.

Czech track and field athletes compete in a class of their own... at least when it comes to their looks. Do you still remember Josef Karas featured last year in Picutre This?

Here is Josef again posing with three of his countrymen


Josef posing some more with his buddies

Josef, the teaser...

And if the "teaser" pic did not reveal enough of Josef for you, he also posed for
a 2008 athletics calendar, here you go!

Sprinter Libor Žilka preparing for a start


Still waiting for the big bang

Libor also knows how to behave in front of a camera...

…and what to wear on that occasion

Libor with Peter Svoboda and a friend

Libor, Josef and Petr. The guy in front obviously has a special relationship with Libor...

Peter Svoboda finding innovative uses for a relay baton


Petr with a friend

Josef and Petr with a friend

Petr doing something he most likely does a lot

Petr blocking a perfect ocean view

Roman Zubek following Petr’s example


More Czech guys posing shirtless

The entire crew

And lots and lots more in Svobodagroup's galleries

Finneye:
What kind of site is this? Are these guys track athletes or a mix?
Great photos.
Jim

I couldn't agree more, Jim, the photos are just great - and there seems to be perfect cooperation between the photograper and the athletes.
About the site haven't got much clue, as Czech isn't one of my strongest languages

I assume it is a site dedicated to the training and competing activities of the athletes coached by Ludvik Svoboda, as it is titled 'svobodagroup'. Ludvik is seen here with Libor Zilka.

And I am almost certain that all of them are track or multievent athletes, and most of them have IAAF profiles too.

Some of the best shots from Texas Relays April 2-5 2008:

Trey Hardee cleared a personal best 5.25m in the decathlon pole vault. Hardee won with 8,371 points.

Gonzalo Barroilhet of Florida State in perfect form. He cleared 5.15m in the decathlon pole vault. Barroilhet was second with 7,828 points.

Reuben Twijukye runs the third leg on LSU runner-up 4 x 800m relay. (I got it - that’s why they are talking about the ”third leg…”)

Jacob Hernandez anchors Texas to victory in the 4 x 800m relay. (He must always run as the anchor - too risky for him to pass the baton as the next guy might grab a wrong one)

For more go to Image of Sport

Man, I'm surprsied tht Jacob Hernandez didn't trip on that huge third leg of his!!

Quickly some highlights from Stanford Track and Field Invitational via Trackshark:

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Russian hunks athletes
Why is he sad?
Bulge 1
Bulge 2
Two hunks
Bulge 3
Bulge 4
Bulge 5
Bulge 6

Doing the Texas Threestep



Harvard's Francis de La Cruz-ing



Maurice Smith bulging once

Bulging twice

Bulging again

Bulging for a friend

Bulging at his bulge

This bulge is for you

Now this makes me bulge

Good night all.

Congratulations Sportinlife!

.......On the fantastic photo-spread of Maurice Smith.

Such a beautiful man and one who is unafraid of showing his bulge in all its natural glory rather than hiding it and "pretending" like some of the Baseball and Football jocks we all too often see, with their artifically-enhanced packages!

More athletes, more horny track-and-field icons please!

Were you surprised and a little disappointed with the lack of "men-of-colour" who made it through to the recent Outsports poll? I certainly was!

Keep up the good work!

Superman UK.

Actually I didn't have time to follow the poll Super. But no I am not surprised. To each his own.

But the selections are by inherently arbitrary. I enjoy all of them.

For instance, I doubt that Russian decathlete d'Aleksey Drozdov was in the competition.

Though some might call him a perfect 10

And even he seems to think he may be a little dificient down there

Still he could have been a sleeper

And has caught the eye of a certain Greek

Lot to be said for a perfect profile, with a less than generous backside

In my fantasies, these two were holding hands just before the picture was taken

Hi Sportinlife.

Thanks for the extra group of pictures and the Russian Decathlete. He is superb.

And of course, "each to his own."

I just found it almost unbelieveable that in a country as large and as "into sport "as the Good Ole USA, that voters could not have found room for just a few of the beautiful men of colour who represent their chosen sports......... Basketball and Athletics in particular, are full of the most amazing specimens of beauty and physical gifts.

All praise to the winner of that particular poll........Ben Cohen......but where oh where were Dayron Robles, Wallace Spearman. Lashawn Merritt, and many others?

Keep up the good work!

Superman UK.

Just discovered a goldmine for all of us who have been missing pictures from this year's Penn Relays.

Such as this:



The photographer, by his Flickr name imchirish, has his collections with lots of track&field photos here.

Hi there Finneye!

You are an answer to my prayers!

Track and Field photos par excellence!

Thank you for directing me to the Flickr site and the photo spreads of the Penn Relays. At long last some truly excellent pictures of beautiful athletes.......including the magnificent Jeremy Wariner as well as many of our handsome and horny athletes of colour.

I thank you!

More please!

Superman UK.

Rather than start a new thread, I'll post this here under "...and other guys in tights". Today, riding my bike through Golden Gate Park, I was pleasantly surprised to see a race, the San Francisco Rollerblading Marathon. 26.2 miles on blades, back and forth on JFK Drive. Had never seen this before, but happy to find the guys wear these one-piece spandex singlets. Nice. Of course they whizzed by too fast to get a good look, or a good picture. This is the only that turned out half-way decent.

TrackShark has more photos from the 114th Penn Relays (by the never disappointing Kirby Lee)

Jonathan Johnson runs the 800m leg on USA Blue distance medley relay that placed fourth in 9:32.12 in the USA vs. The World

David Neville ran the 400m leg of Blue

The other shade of skin was well represented by Andrew Rock who ran the 400m leg on USA Red distance medley relay that placed second in 9:31.67 in the USA vs. The World

Penn Relay pics always welcome Finneye.

Now to delve into the depths of decathletics one last time...for now: Pelle Rietveld



Why wear anything under those tights?

Is seven the number of inches? I don't think so

Didn't know Dutch chocolate came in vanilla

A relaxing workout on YouTube

And a short jog to cool down after

Best bits:

Best calves

Best skin tone

Best underwear

You go guy!

Carlos Eduardo Chinin of Brazil competed recently at the 21st Multistars event in Decathlon in Desenzano, Italy.


After the first day and five events he had the lead, but after failing at the 110m hurdles of the second day he discontinued the race.




At last year’s XV Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro he finished third after Maurice Smith of Jamaica and Yordani Garcia of Cuba.


He also represented his home country at the World Championships in Osaka in 2007, but did not finish the competition.

See more of him (and hear him being interviewed in his beautiful native language of Portuguese) in YouTube.

Since Chinin is about five years younger than Smith, and Garcia about eight years younger, I'd say Maurice is going to have some serious competition in the near future, if not in this years Olympics.

And yes that Brazilian Portuguese is very sexy.

Thanks Sportinlife........

.....for the superb photos of Brazilian Decathlete, Chinin. Particularly enjoyed the magnificent picture of him long-jumping (or as you guys in the States tend to say........"broad-jumping!")

The three medallists at the Pan Am's........Garcia, Chinin and Smith are quite a threesome anyway. Cannot wait to see them competing against each other in Beijing.

Long live Track and Field and it's beautiful competitors!

Cheers!

Superman UK.

Evant Orange of Poly holds off Manoah Wesson of Dominguez on the anchor of the 4 x 100-meter relay in the CIF Southern Section Masters Meet at Cerritos College on May 23. Poly won in 41.31 and Dominguez was second in 41.35.



(Had they asked me, I'd have nominated Manoah the undisputable winner...)

Usain's INSANE Bolt to the top in 9.72 seconds

Lord, would my fingers slip doing this job

My what long.....arms you have my sweet

Others may clutch their pearls. Usain keeps tabs on the real jewels

And what a JEWEL it is


Unlikely lanky body type for 100m sprints

Close up and personal


Needs that moisture licked off

Congratulations Usain!

And how refreshing to see an explosive sprinter who is long, lean and lanky.........unlike so many of the over-muscled examples we observe today!

Cannot wait to watch him "mixing-it" with Asafa Powell! In any manner they like!

Cheers Sportinlife!

Superman UK.

Vaulting: 12th IAAF World Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain March 7-9, 2008

Brad Walker in my favorite position...for him

He got silver. I give him gold

Yevgeniy Lukyanenko flexing after the winning 5.90m vault

Those ripped extremities are alone are worth a celebration

Derek Miles shows his stuff in the qualifications

speechless

I see London, I see France...

...I see Euro undie-pants.

Would David Oliver's thighs fit into those?

I certainly hope not. Or at least that they're ripped by the third hurdle.

Jeremy Wariner (in Shanghai) always needs something to suck on to relieve tension

Hmm. I guess a leg of Peking duck didn't seem appropriate to the location.

Would David Oliver's thighs fit into those?

I certainly hope not. Or at least that they're ripped by the third hurdle.


Goodness, Oliver's ripped. Great specimen of a man. Sigh.

Working up to Beijing, Cuba's Dayron Robles sets a new world record in the 110 meter hurdles breaking that of China's Liu Xaing.