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Ana Ivanovic - Sexy Athletes in Beijing Olympics 2008

Serbia - Lawn Tennis


We’ve loved this racket-wielding siren for quite some time now. She’s just so damn beautiful – which is why we’ve made her number one.

New territory
Ana Ivanovic will be the No. 1 woman going into the Beijing Games will be playing in the singles draw. Thanks to her runner-up finish in the Australian Open and her first Grand Slam title at Roland Garros, Ivanovic was able to claim the top spot left vacated in May by former-No. 1 Justine Henin. At Wimbledon, however, Ivanovic learned the dangers that go with the euphoria of being the world's best when she was upset by Zheng Jie in the round of 32. "Everyone's going to be so pumped against you and they're going to try, you know, to perform the best they can," Ivanovic said after the loss.

Debating the worth
Olympic tennis has come under some fire given its proximity to the U.S. Open in terms of scheduling and the fact that, points-wise, it's less valuable than a Grand Slam. Some like Ivanovic -- who celebrates her Serbian ties -- defend the Olympics' validity in an already cramped tennis schedule. At the Pacific Life Open, when asked whether she would want a Wimbledon or Olympic title, she jokingly responded she wanted both the same. "Obviously Wimbledon, it's very traditional and I feel my game can fit very well grass if I keep working on my volleys like I've been doing," she said at the Pacific Life Open. "But on the other hand, the Olympics are very special, and you have opportunity to play them once in four years. So it would be really special to win a medal."

A country's breakthrough
If there was ever a year for Serbia to medal at the Olympics, this may be it. Ivanovic and countrywoman Jelena Jankovic sit Nos. 1 and 3, respectively. Novak Djokovic is No. 3 on the men's side and is the defending Australian Open champion. Even doubles player Nenad Zimonjic is a Grand Slam champion this year, winning Wimbledon with Daniel Nestor of Canada. "For Novak to win the first Grand Slam for Serbia (at the) beginning of the year -- you know, going into today's final I thought of it, and I said, ‘Come on. He could do it, I could do it, too,'" Ivanovic said after winning Roland Garros. "So it's something that for sure motivates, and I hope also many young kids will get inspired from us."

Making a splash
Ana Ivanovic used a swimming pool to train while she was a child. And, no, this is not the type of glamorous training ground that Michael Phelps had. In Belgrade there was an Olympic-sized swimming pool that would be drained after the summer season finished. Two makeshift courts were made out of the pool, and youngsters like Ivanovic and Jankovic would go train. A product of the hardship surrounding former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the facility named Jedanaesti April was the best that could be offered to the others. At the 2007 French Open both Ivanovic and Jankovic described hitting in minus-15 degree weather while hitting in the pool. "And it was impossible to play crosscourt, because it was this far from the wall," Ivanovic told the Los Angeles Times, holding her hands a short distance apart. "So we had to keep playing down the lines. And that was the courts we had during the winter."

Not the only difficulty
While eager to play tennis whenever she could -- at the age of five, Ivanovic had been inspired by the play of Monica Seles and had made a point to memorize a phone number for a local tennis school -- the current No. 1 had to deal with the political strife her country was enduring, even though she had nothing to do with it. NATO planes were dropping bombs on her country and difficulties traveling were beginning to mount. "We had problems to get a visa to another country," Ivanovic told the Los Angeles Times. "And we didn't have flights from Serbia. We had to go to Hungary, so we'd take a bus for six, seven hours, just to catch a flight. So it was very tough, and I thought it would be impossible to succeed. But then, luckily, I got managers." Said managers helped move her in the same way that Jankovic was moved to Florida to train. Ivanovic found a new home in Switzerland, where she found the training to help complete the process of making her into an elite player.

Gretchen Bleiler - Sexy Athletes in Beijing Olympics 2008

USA - Snowboarding


You might not guess it to look at her, but young Gretchen is the big name in female snowboarding. When she’s not tearing up half-pipes, she likes looking pretty, playing with her hair, and mini-golf. At a guess, anyway.

Gretchen aspired to compete in the Olympic Games from a very young age, and found her passion in snowboarding at age 11 (1992).[4] She has been riding ever since, became professional in 1996 and is currently recognized as a role model and pioneer in the sport.[5] Among her accomplishments, Gretchen jump-started the invert revolution for female riders as the first to land a Crippler 540 in competition, and won more halfpipe competitions in 2003, 2005 and 2006 than any other female snowboarder.[2] In the pre Olympic season she won four of the five US Olympic halfpipe qualifiers and is also a three time X Games gold medalist, most recently winning the superpipe at Winter X Games XII.

In 2003, she was a U.S. snowboard Grand Prix champion, a U.S. Open of snowboarding champion, and a Triple Crown of Snowboarding champion.

Bleiler, who barely missed qualifying for the 2002 Winter Olympics due to a tiebreaker, won a silver medal in the women's halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

Starting in 2007, Gretchen expanded her career into snowboard and outerwear design, through Oakley and K2 Snowboarding, designing her own signature outerwear line for Oakley, and participating in the K2 Alliance, which develops and tests women's products, as well as working on the graphics for several K2 Boards. In 2008, she helped to create a new all-female invitational superpipe competition at Snowmass called the Snow Angels Invitational.

When she is not competing, Gretchen enjoys surfing, mountain biking, interior design and fashion.[10] Gretchen is also active in several environmental organizations, including the Aspen Snomass Save Snow campaign, and stopglobalwarming.org.