Let's give a salute to the Italian Track and Field with some images from their recent meets via Fidal, the Italian T&F Association.

Love that gallery. Had to see more. Some of my favorites:

Now this is how you congratulate


Don't know who they are but wouldn't this be a great father's day picture?


The top 400m runner has a top bottom too


I think Jeremy Wariner has seen enough of it


Now this is a blonde to have more fun with


Not the fastest but still the hottest thing from Jamaica



Yum, from tongue to toe


A Jamaican orgy - from my wet dream

HUNK

(More) views from the European Track and Field Team Championships in Leiria, Portugal:

Finneye and Sportinlife you guys deserve an award for all of the hard work you put in and have put in over the years filling the discussion boards with quality and amazing pictures! Looking through the lastest batch I was thinking that I have to start going back to church because they are so many hot guys in the world to be thankful for. Again, your efforts are much appreciated. Salut!

Anyone have pics or know where to get pics of the USA Championships happening right now? There are some hot guys in there!

Looks like a lot of first-tier USA athletes have a bye at the IAAF World Track & Field events and are not willing to risk their health at the USA Championships.

But there may still be some decent photos on the web.

From a pre-match press conference, 800 meter runner Nick Symmonds' gorgeous mug


The diving finish from Beijing in 2008 shows how tight the competition is in that event

Looks more like the beginning of a swim meet.

There are some, an will likely be more, at Image of Sport, such as this one of decathlete Ashton Eaton

I didn't know how hot Ashton Eaton was until I saw him up close today, amazing body!!

Ashton looks even better on his back with his legs open. But then that's just me.



Others may have a different preference.

He also looks even better with teammate Marshall Ackley



Who also looks half decent on his back with his legs open



Praying for big one, a big win that is.

Dayron Robles of Cuba won the 110m hurdles at the Golden Gala of the IAAF Golden League at the Olympic stadium in Rome July 10

Proud to be Gay – after winning the 100m clash against Asafa Powell and equalling the US record of 9.77

Thanks, Sportinlife and Finneye.

Who is this? What race was he in? I want to see more!

Edited: I figured out by searching his number via the 2008 Olympics: it's French 100 m runner Martial Mbandjock.

European Athletics Association's under 23 Track and Field Championships were held in Kaunas, Lithuania over the past weekend.
Fidal has again terrific photo galleries with Italian athletes:

Isalbet Juarez, 400m run


Gavino Giacomo Dettori, 100m


The 400m relay team


The 100m relay team



Daniele Greco, Triple Jump

Those two 100m runners on the right: YEEEES! Just fulfilled my fantasy for the kickass hero-couple in my next sci-fi thriller. Rusty-haired Wolfman with da uber-bling is definite villain material. And the Geek has to be made-boy-scientist who develops an aphrodisiac that endows the user with SUPERpowered stamina.

Montage to one of my favorite triple jumpers (my specialty in high school ), Nelson Évora, Portuguese by way of Cape Verde and the Ivory Coast.

His innovative style


..and pefect torso.

The sexy way he wears the national flag


That runway-perfect body


Heartstopping smile


Um, no comment required


Appropriately attired for pre-Labor Day occassions


The Thinker revisited

And that almond-eyed smile

Such a beauty! Thanks for posting photos of him!

I also noticed that he practices the Baha'i Faith which has an interesting, and recent, origin in Iran of all places.

Finishing Well

Norge Sotomayor of Cuba winning in a 400m Hurdles final:


Dale Morgan of USA outdistances a leaning Jack Meredith of Great Britain at the finish-line:


Jose Adrian Sornoza of Ecuador floats like a condor:


Joshua Mance of the USA makes me float:

Skinny legs and all, Gambian Norwegian sprinter Jaysuma Saidy Ndure

Adoration of his countrymen

With best-known Norwegian track star, javelin specialist Andreas Thorkildsen

Aren't those guns illegal?

Bling baby


Irrepressible smile


Bringing sexy back..to Scandinavia


Glistenning



Aw shucks, it's only Beijing

Well done beefcake on couple of sturdy skewers

No comment needed indeed!!!!! DIOS MIO!!!! He is packin some serious heat!! Pictures like this always bring me back to Jamie Foxx's comment at the ESPY's the year he hosted "Speedos aint for Negros"

Remember the flak about Polish plumbers taking the French women by storm?

Well Belarussian Pole vaulting decathlete Andrei Krauchanka (competing in Szczecin, Poland) certainly does his bit to challenge them.

Peak bulge


Decathloned Calves


Competing in the 110m hurdles

Congratulated on his win by German decathlete Artur Abele

Russian decathlete Vasiliy Kharlamov is a strong rival to Andrei.

Not to mention France's own Romain Barras.

...or Mykola Shulha of Ukraine

More photos from the decathlon event in Szczecin.

If you thought the Swedes only did blonde, prepare to pop a coin off the bouncy bum of Björn Barrefors

Look at that innocent smile


And the standard 6-pak, +2

Whao, somebody's packing for a looong trip. (And I think the tall blonde on the right in the next photo wants to come along.)

Yikes! Momma pop those things out of the oven. They. Are. DONE.

High tens for one event

Some athletes in Scotland

Young runners at Pitlochry Highland Games
Pitlochry Relay

Athletes at Blairgowrie
Blairgowrie


Speed at Portree
Portree Race

Runners think, plan, do !
Meet up

Exposure
It popped out

Exhaustion
Surreal Athlete - Portree Highland Games

The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics will take place in Berlin on nine consecutive days of events starting Saturday, August 15, until August 23, 2009.
Some 1,800 athletes from the whole world are taking part in the nine day Championships, competing in 47 competitions across 24 different disciplines.

The venue of the championships is Berlin Olympic Stadium, built originally for the 1936 Olympic Games.

Although the Stadium has gone through lots of changes throughout its colourful and not always glorious history, there are still lots of things visible there reminding of the origins of the Stadium as the forum for the German National Socialist Party to display their superiority. The original architecture and art reflect the ideology of their creators, not least the monumental statues specially designed to illustrate the military aspects of sport, such as combat, discipline, courage, self-sacrifice and heroism.

Two statues by Karl Albiker standing on the north and south sides of the Stadium area with athlete pairs "The Discus Throwers" and "The Relay Racers":




A Gallery of the Berlin Stadium

Revealing Lycra

Love it. You have to put your cursor over the right place on the guy on the right for the joke.

I know it's off-topic but I couldn't resist noticing who wears the pants in this family.

They both look better for it.

Robert Harting is one beefy German who knows how to celebrate a win ...

Yeah, I'm the man










Gotta love his enthusiasm





So handsome



Wanna see my stuff?



OK, I don't know what's happening here. Poor mascot.



OK, maybe I don't feel so sorry for the mascot anymore.



And his winning form

Mr. Harting has a future in gay porn if that discus thing isn't working for him. He's already perfected "shirt ripping" and "assuming unusual erotic positions with another man" (assuming that's what's in the mascot suit).

All he needs now is an agent.

robert harting is gorgeous!
one of best looking athletes in berlin 2009 championship.

Don't be shy, give me a kiss, you sweaty little hunk!

There must be a thing going on between those two, they even spell it out on their chests:



More loving at the World Championships: Sean Wroe and John Steffensen of Australia celebrate winning the bronze medal in the men's 4x400 Metres Relay

BFFs with a mascot that is not only of undefinable sex but is not even clearly of any known species?

I think the IAAFs gender investigators are going to be very suspicious of this.

More on Native Aussie 400 meter specialist John Steffensen

"We're number three!" He's number 3 from the right


Getting pumped up


Pretty Boy


Against the outback sky


More tongue please


Lips like rosebuds




Half strapless


Totally strapless


Defending The Rock


Between two worlds


He conquers who conquers himself

Uplifting Legs

Kenya's David Rudisha in a breakaway win in the 800m


USA's Derek Miles making a comeback in the vault

Still going strong... the Incredible Asafa

Hard to imagine anyone other than Usain Bolt as 2009 Track and Field Athlete of the Year. But here's finalist Andreas Thorkildsen qualifications.

Norwegian statue


Torso.


About to burst with sexiness


Kind to both trainers and animals


All that and one very big pole.

Making a comeback after the heartbreak of injury at last year's Olympics is Liu Xiang. And he celebrates by throwing off his clothes... which are promptly shredded and sold on the Internet.
China's Liu stirs frenzy with post-victory strip

1910 was a fine year for Men in Tights!!!
I'll take the guy in the middle!

Limber, weren't they?

Love the Blond Guy just hanging there!

Gotta love the classics. The modern is a bit more...revealing though

Looks like someone wants to come out and play


If it keeps standing up begging for attention...


...just give it a quick whacking

You can have those monochrome "classics." (Some of those guys also looked *really*...young. Ugh.)

The full-color contemporary track participants definitely pack more of a wallop--which is a polite way of describing the goods these two hotties have stuffed in their singlets.



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Um, just so it's out there, the notorious sculptor Karl Albiker (1878-1961) was known as the "package deal" among the Nazis. He supported Nazi ideology and after the "degenerate" modernists' works were removed from museums, the Nazis installed his work in them. Just saying.

No objections to that. If interested in reading more views on the Nazi art and on these Karl Albikers statues in particular, you might want to check out this discussion.

Maybe we can at least to agree to congratulating the current Woodberry Forrest Football team on its celebration of 40 years of integration.

My high school only integrated about a decade earlier and I don't think they've had a celebration since.

Andrew Howe

Lo stallion italiano nero di Vanity Fair

Coverboy


Leap of faith in skimpy track shorts

What's holding up that towel

Dressed only in a wedding ring or saggers and an Alsatian

Ahem - bathhouse chic anyone?

For those who love the guys with giant poles there is a whole gallery at trackpic from the U23 championships in Lithuania last summer.

One of the mighty vaulters is Yevgeniy Ageyev from Russia


Yevgeniy vaulting

More vaulters

Hellenic eyes to drown in

Find the whole gallery here

Tracks Toward Twenty Twelve

Ivory Williams will have to improve a lot to catch a Bolt in the 100m


David Girault is doing daddy proud in the long jump


LaShawn Merritt is hot in anything, but undefeated at 400m since Beijing

Grrrr!!!

Oh waiter! I'd like some more Ivory Williams, please.
Well, OK, if you're out of Ivory Williams, some Travis Padgett will have to do.



What's that, you DID find some Ivory Williams? Excellent!



An OMG-I'm-In-Love SFDutch

Good pics for sure!!!

The full-color contemporary track participants definitely pack more of a wallop--which is a polite way of describing the goods these two hotties have stuffed in their singlets.
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is he growin?