I'm sure some of you remember the lovely Leryn Franco. She was the attractive Paraguayan picked up by NBC cameras during the Beijing Opening ceremonies. It took people a little while to figure out that she competes in the javelin, but it took people almost no time to figure out she has her own modeling calendar.
Anyway, there's not much debating her attractiveness, so how about we find out how she did in the javelin?
Uh, not so good.
As Fourth Place Medal informs us, Franco competed this morning and finished second-to-last in the qualifying round with a throw that was 12 meters short of her personal best. I don't know a lot about javelin, but I know that when you come in second to last, the only person worse than you probably comes from a country where javelins don't even exist. In other words, you suck.
But at least Franco made an impression on us and taught us all a valuable and important lesson: Don't be ugly.
Leryn Franco bridges the gap between sports and hot women in her role as the world’s hottest javelin thrower. Of course Janis Lusis is probably the greatest javelin thrower in history.
2004 Athens Summer Olympics
She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics for Paraguay where she was 21st in Group A and finished 42nd overall.
Olympic 2008
She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the javelin representing Paraguay, where she finished next-to-last at 51st. During the Games’s opening ceremony she garnered some media attention because of her good looks.
The javelin event has been part of the Olympic tradition for a hundred years, but it is could be argued that no one as beautiful as Leryn Franco ever threw a javelin in an Olympic event. Franco, 26, is competing for her native Paraguay in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. This is her second Olympics; she competed in Athens in 2004.
Athletic competitions aren't the only events Franco competes in. She was runner-up for 2006 Miss Paraguay.
Franco is making news at the 2008 Summer Olympics not because she has won a medal, however, but because of the news circulating that she has been featured in a personal calendar where she goes topless (a true enough statment, but a bit misleading). This will no doubt spark more interest in the javelin throwing competition this year than usual. Nothing like a little nudity to spice up a javelin event.
The Beijing games seem to be seeing a lot more skin than the average Olympics.
American swimmer Amanda Beard set tongues to wagging when she unveiled her nude PETA poster outside the Olympic Village in Beijing on August 6. The poster shows the swimmer in profile on her knees in water, the words "Be comfortable in your own skin. Don't wear fur." placed strategically across her thigh. The poster is part of PETA's anti-fur campaign.
But Beard's poster had nothing on France's swimmer, gold-medal winning Laure Manaudou, who had nude photos and a sex tape (Manaudou denies she is the woman in tape) distributed via the internet in late 2007, only to have them become a topic of international interest again as she vied for the gold in Beijing. The distraction may have been the partial cause of her coming in last in the 400 metre freestyle and seventh in the 200 metre freestyle, both for which she won the gold in Athens in 2004. To make matters worse, the 200 metre freestyle was won and a new record set by ex-teammate Frederica Pellegrini of Italy, who also happens to date Manaudou's ex-boyfriend.
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Pretty babe :)