Showing posts with label Lindsay Vonn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lindsay Vonn. Show all posts

Monday, February 22, 2010

Olympic Athlete Profile- (14 of 25). Sandrine Aubert/women's slalom/France




There are some very attractive female athletes at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, including American luger Erin Hamlin and Bulgarian snowboarder Alexandra Jekova, whom we've both refered to before.

But, it is perhaps French slalom skier Sandrine Aubert, who posts pictures of herself in a bikini on her web site (sandrineaubert.com) who is the most gorgeous of them all.

Oddly enough even though Aubert, 27, won a major slalom event in Zagreb, Croatia, beating out American Lindsay Vonn, this January, there is very little about her on the web.

Aubert keeps a blog, but it is in French. Even though I speak a foreign language (Turkish), I must admit my French was barely good enough to pass a community college course in Virginia.

But, according to Wikipedia, Aubert ranks third in the world.

She won her first World Cup race in Germany on March 7, 2009, and she also won a major competition in Sweden.

Aubert seems to be one female athlete who could one day become a runway model in Paris. She really is that gorgeous!

Interestingly enough, she will be competiting (or has already competed) against Iranian skier Marjan Kalhor whom we profiled earlier.

Winter Athlete Profiles (10 of 25)- Marjan Kalhor/slalom skiing/Iran




Due to a technical glitch, we are going to profile Iranian slalom skier Marjan Kahlor, 21, the first woman to represt Iran at a Winter Olympics, a bit earlier than anticipated.

Kahlor carried the Iranian flag for a delegation of five athletes. Some in Iran have criticized Kahlor for competiting as an athlete as a woman because of the country's strict Isamic cultural values, but Kalhor told "USA Today" that coming to the Olympics was very important not just for her, but for the women of Iran:

"I am very glad to be here, not just for myself, but it can be a very good incentive for women in Iran."

Kahlor is not exactly Lindsay Vonn when it comes to winning major international competitions though she has won medals at skiing events in Turkey and Lebanon.

She told "USA Today" that putting in her best effort was vital:

"I can't think think about a gold, silver or bronze," she said. "But I have some competitiors that were close to each other," Kahlor said. "I hope I can perform better than them."

According to the blog site Muslim Women in Sports, Kahlor will wear the traditional Islamic headscraf in the Olympic Village, but she will dress like everyone else on the slopes.