The Road To Rio: Going For The Lin

07 Tuesday Apr 2015

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The days that Brazil opens it legs wide to welcome the world to the Games of the XXXI Olympiad are just around the corner.

With just over a year to go before the Olympic Opening Ceremonies take the stage in Rio de Janeiro, I know y’all been thinking it’s way past the time I shoulda began my Olympic-size coverage of the Games. My bad. Especially since I know how many of you check my blog daily just hoping for a post about sporting events of any kind. And while a very few in the minority may feel that August 5, 2016, the day the Games of the XXXI Olympiad are scheduled to begin, is soon enough, since the hot athletes of the world are already sweating their little bodies out to be in line for a coveted berth on their respective nation’s team the least I can do is to provide a bit of coverage of those hot, sweating bodies.

There are less than 500 days to go, and Rio still has a slum or two to raze for its Olympic stadiums, a few million to spend attempting to clean up Guanabara Bay – described by one leading biologist as a toilet – in time for its use as the sailing and windsurfing venue, an estimated (not to mention astounding) 90% of preparations on infrastructure, stadiums, and the like still to be built (the IOC has made an informal approach to see if Rio is not ready in time London could act as an emergency host city), and the equally Herculean task of cleaning up the city’s current image of being the violent crime capital of the world (Brazil pegs in at some 45,000 homicides each year, or 24.8 violent deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, compared with 4.8 per 100,000 in the United States) which took a minor setback in December when 2012 London Olympic Games silver medallists in the women’s 470 sailing class, Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark, were mugged and robbed at knifepoint after a training session in the 2016 Olympic host city. Which may not bode well for the 1016 Games. Except that Brazil is also known for some of the hottest male bodies on the planet, and that hotness factor will soar when the world’s top-rated athletes hit town. And that means despite problems the Games will go on.

So while it’s still too early to cover Olympian Bruce Jenner’s transition into a lesbian, a world record in its own right – not to mention the dangers of associating with Ryan Seacrest – and while Tom Daley latest efforts always make for a good article, or at least pix of Tom do, since he continues to underwhelm and comes in bottoming to the Chinese divers at international competitions it’s a bit premature to be ejaculating (again) over Tom too. But one of the most delectable pieces of Olympic rice recently made a splash of his own, so this is a good time to check in on China’s most masterful cock swatting athlete, the hunky Lin Dan, or Super Dan as he is known among those who actually consider badminton to be a sport.

Not that Olympic badminton couldn’t use a bit of good PR anyway. Last time around in London, 8 players (from South Korea, Indonesia, and China) were ejected from the Games after being found guilty of “not using best efforts” and “conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport” by playing to lose matches in order to manipulate the draw for the knockout stage. Which is basically how the game is played in China. So while Dan’s recent record is no better than Daley’s – he just lost the Yonex Sunrise India Open during the quarterfinals and started out 2014 104th in the World Ranking – the two-time Olympic champion says he is training hard to be at his best to achieve a record third gold at the Rio Games ‘cuz there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that Lin is China’s cash-cow when it comes to Olympic gold medals and Dan will be landing in Rio regardless of how many matches he loses before then.

But Dan’s record streak of losses isn’t what’s been making the news in China. Appropriately, the 31-year-old stud’s body is what has China all aTwitter. While Queen Elton was busy trying to convince the pink brigade to boycott Dolce & Gabbana for not being in favor of bionic babies, the gay Italian designers were busy lovingly taking photos of their 2013 brand ambassador in as little fashion as possible and the powers that be In China are not amused. Relesaed last week in book form at a gala reception for Dan in Shnaghai, some of the photos have been deemed to be “oversexualized”, and also “inappropriate” due to Lin Dan’s military status. While the general attitude amongst the proletariat has been, “I’d salute that.”

Available on Amazon in early June at a capitalistic selling price of $57, the photo book depicts Lin as a new icon of masculinity. Styled by Gabbana and photographed by Dolce, Dan appears in a variety of settings, each of which interpret a specific role: from the seducer to the Greco-Roman hero, from the gladiator to the great Imperial Emperor, from the aristocratic dandy to the Neapolitan street urchin . . . in other words, every possible scenario Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s homoerotic fantasies could inspire. The book, as well as T-shirts with Lin’s image, are now available in all Dolce & Gabbana stores in China.

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The XVII Asiad: Hello Kiddy! – Japan’s Yuya Kamoto Is A Living Doll

19 Friday Sep 2014

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Japan’s Yuya Kamoto, a Rings specialist, flies high on parallel bars too and is sure to medal for over-all cuteness at the XVII Asiad.

Japan’s Yuya Kamoto celebrated his 19th birthday last week and got just what he wished for: a chance to win a gold medal in men’s gymnastics. Not that the diminutive 5′ 2″, 132 lbs. Rings specialist hasn’t accomplished that feat in his short career already. He won the men’s individual all around competition at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games held in Singapore in 2010. But that was back when he competed against just the boys (all competitors were born between 1993 and 1994). Now he’s competing with the men. And while he only holds the # 15 spot in world rankings, at the 17th Asian Games his star is expected to shine. As for being adorably cute, Yuya is already a gold medal winner.

In Japan when you mention men’s gymnastics Kohei Uchimura’s name is what springs to everyone’s mind. Yuya’s too; he says Kohei is his hero. But at the country’s official press conference for its bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games, it was Yuya and not Kohei standing on the stage. While Uchimura’s career is far from over, the country is looking to its future and knows its future in international gymnastics is with Kamoto.

2012 Olympic Gold Medalist Uchimura still dominates on the podium. In May this year he became the first Japanese male to win seven consecutive national titles at the 68th All Japan Gymnastics Championship, and the following month captured his sixth consecutive trophy at the 53rd NHK Cup International Gymnastics Tournament. Yuya, a student at Nippon Sport Science University, placed 7th in the individual all around in May, and moved up to the 6th spot in June. With Uchimura not competing in Incheon since he’s preparing for the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships to be held in Nanning, China in early October, Japan is placing its hopes on Yuya at the XVII Asiad.

And with good reason. In 2013 Kamoto placed 7th at the World Cup held in Stuttgart, Germany, the highest finishing place among the male competitors from Japan. And while his younger team mate, the barely legal Kenzo Shirai, continues to dazzle on the floor exercise, Yuya, whose father is a former gymnast and encouraged him to get into the sport at the age of five, excels on the rings where he throws a double front layout swinging element in combination with a double front tuck. The much easier double pike in combination with a double tuck has been the norm up to this point.

Yuya’s biggest competition at Incheon is expected to be China’s Junlin Liao, who dominated the rings competitions in 2010 and 2011, racking up an enviable number of gold medals in international competitions. But this year he’s been off his feed although he placed 10th in the event at 7th Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup held in Doha, Qatar last March to Kamoto’s 13th place finish. But Yuya is also a bit of a demon on the parallel bars and while his chances of medalling on individual events look good, his opportunity for taking home the gold for the individual all around is even better. Which should place him just where he wants to be: looking forward to the 2016 Summer Games in Rio.

[‘The XVII Asiad’ are a series of posts about hot competitors and general articles about the 2014 17th Asian Games of interest to gay men. So, yeah, lots of hot male eye candy. Click the XVII Asiad’ graphic below for additional news, stories, and pictures.]

Let The Games Begin. Again?

18 Thursday Sep 2014

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Is that a banana on your swimsuit or are you just excited that the 2014 Asian Games start on Friday?

When it comes to the Olympic Games, Thailand is not exactly what you’d call a real powerhouse. In fact, the Kingdom has only won 48 Olympic medals since it began participating in the Games in 1952. And only seven of those have been gold, primarily in boxing and weightlifting. But the country’s international sporting event scorecard is looking to be a lot rosier come September 19th when the 17th Asian Games officially kicks off in Incheon, South Korea. Of the 9.553 athletes participating, 518 are from Thailand. And at the 2010 Asian Games held in Guangzhou, Thailand took home 52 medals. Four of those were gold. Granted, all of those were won in sepak takraw, and it’s easier to medal in a sport no one knows anything about (it’s kind of a cross between volleyball and soccer) but a win is a win and even a loss can be a win considering the Thai Women’s Football team just got rewarded with a 100,000 baht purse from the head of the Thai football league for losing to South Korea at their opening match at the Asian Games. And sometimes losses can set new records too. Thailand’s men’s football team is the only team in the history of the Games to have reached the semifinals three times and still manage to not win a medal. They’ve already beat the Maldives this time around, so maybe they’ll set a new 4-0 record at the 17th Asian Games.

Like me you too have probably been going through extremely fit, almost naked, international male athlete withdrawals lately. It’s been almost a month since the Commonwealth Games ended, and Tom Daley’s sex tape has still not surfaced. Fortunately, 45 countries have taken pity on our souls and have sent their hottest bodies to South Korea to take part in the XVII Asiad, the largest sporting event in Asia, which runs Friday through October 4th, with 439 events in 36 sports, 28 of which will be contested at the 2016 Summer Olympics and eight non-Olympic disciplines including the ever popular sepak takraw and almost as well-known kabaddi. Even better for you lovers of rice, participating athletes must have lived in the country they represent for at least three years, and since participating countries are limited to those within Asia, there will be a lot of beautifully toned brown bodies, sans potato, on display at the Games. Which doesn’t gel well with the Games’ slogan, Diversity Shines Here, but then who’s complaining?

Malaysia’s Ooi Tze Liang will be competing at the 2014 Asian Games. Um, Tom who?

So while Tommy is busy perfecting his crotch diving skills back home with Dustin Lance Black, the guys who usually beat him when he’s not in bed (aka the men of China’s diving team) will all be showing their bodies off in Incheon. As will Malaysia’s hotness on the board, Ooi Tze Liang. And in the other pool, Singapore’s entry for the gold medal for cutest athlete, Joseph Schooling, will be competing for fame against South Korea’s Park Tae-hwan and China’s Sun Yang, who even if he doesn’t medal still has a career appearing in before photos for dental hygiene advertisements. And while Thailand’s male athletes tend to keep their clothes on far too much, the country will be keeping its eye on Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana (the King’s granddaughter) who will be competing with her horse (no, not Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn) in both the team and individual dressage events during the Games.

As large as the Asian Games are, as an international sporting event the just over two week long celebration doesn’t quite catch the world’s attention like the Olympics do. And while sex always sells, controversy wins the silver medal and the 17th Asian Games – so far – hasn’t managed to make headlines like Sochi did when Putin declared open season on the gays. So far there’s been an Iranian delegation member who was arrested for molesting a female volunteer at Ansan Wa Stadium, but that’s pretty much par for the course when Arabs get past the borders of their own country. And there was a minor brouhaha over the Korean boy band JYJ being named honorary ambassadors of the Games and then dropped from the opening and closing ceremonies and relegated to perform in the pre-opening ceremony instead. Maybe if they took a clue from Australia’s Five Seconds of Summer and posted a few nude selfies they’d get to push Psy out of his spot in the opening ceremonies because even South Korea must be getting tired of Gangnam Style by now. But then the Games have not yet officially begun, and considering the 2010 Games’ Singaporean Men’s Water Polo Team’s swimsuits featuring a large banana, oops I mean crescent, over their crotch there’s still hope for a bit of controversy, or a lot of male bulge photos to come.

Singapore’s Joseph Schooling is one of swimming’s up and comers and a cutey to watch for at the 2014 Asian Games.

Hot male bodies aside, I’m not sure just how extensive my 2014 Asian Games coverage will be. The Incheon Asiad Main Stadium looks too vagina like, I’m not sure of I want to learn what kabaddi is, or how much time I want to spend looking for a hot athlete from India, my satellite TV provider thinks reruns of Keeping Up With The Kardashians are more important than broadcasting the Asian Games, the out and proud gay athlete count at the Games is expected to be 0, we’ll never know what happens to the North Korean athletes who fail to medal (but can guess), no Asian diver can compete with Mexico’s Ivan Garcia in unibrow – or prodigiousness of bulge – and then there’s the aforementioned Psy opening ceremony performance.

On the plus side, Qiu Bo is looking mighty doable these days, delving into the athletes from the Philippines invariably results in photos of almost naked male beauty pageant contestants when you search their names on Google Images, this season of The Ultimate Fighter is all fish and I need some degree of athletics in my life, undoubtedly there will be lots of Wangs and Dongs to snicker over – not to mention Vietnam’s Phuoc Hung – for host country color coverage I just read the newest fad in Korea is pizza topped with worms (damn you Google!), and covering the Games would give me an excuse to post lots of male model cum athlete photos. And I did mention Qiu Bo, right? So, we’ll see.

And then again I just discovered a cute Japanese gymnast whose arm pit bush puts U.S. Diver Nick McCrory’s to shame. So stay tuned.

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Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are

14 Monday Jul 2014

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This weekend five time gold medalist Ian Thorpe began living his life as an openly gay man.

Coming out is a personal process. Even when you decide to do so in front of a million+ television audience as Aussie gold medalist and prodigiously packed Speedo god Ian Thorpe did yesterday. Good for him. The Twitterverse responded favorably. And the gay media had a collective orgasm. I probably shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds my fantasies – if it were not for the gay media I wouldn’t have daily pictures of Tom Daley showing off his bod to drool over – but maybe it’s time the gay media stops emulating FOX news. Journalism and cheerleading are not supposed to be synonymous. That Thorpe came out was newsworthy and laudable enough in its own right. Glossing over the fact that doing so was a carefully thought-out part of a $550,000 deal with Channel Ten that will see him call swimming at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow later this month cheapens its impact. Or at least its journalistic coverage.

I’m all for any gay man who decides it’s time to be himself, openly and unabashedly. But when that gay man is famous, it would mean more if his coming out wasn’t a tie-in with an event that will line his pockets. Ricky Martin came out to promote his autobiography. Tom Daley’s timing suspiciously coincided with the debut of the new season of his television show which had been suffering poor ratings. And Thorpe’s interview was part of the package he signed with Channel Ten. It is ironic that those who claim they did not come out while actively involved in whatever it was that made them famous out of fear of losing endorsement deals or movie roles, finally do when there is payola on the table. Especially in an age when being a freshly minted gay man is so profitable.

I’ve always held that if, when, and how someone comes out is a personal decision. Although the if part of that equation is a bit iffy. Within reason. I think when you are a world famous athlete or celebrity you are playing on a different ball field. And then, when questions about your sexuality arise, you should do the right thing and admit which team you play for. Or just shut up. I have no problem with Kevin Spacey refusing to discuss his personal life; his response to questions about his sexuality, that that has nothing to do with his art and career, is a valid one. Spending years denying that you are gay, as Thorpe has, not so much. Now that he has, the gay media will refer to him as a hero and a role model. While ignoring that during the years when he was busy winning gold medals he was a role model for being closeted.

Thorpe and his thorpedo now officially swim for the pink team.

The same could be said of Tom Daley, Greg Louganis, George Takei, Ricky Martin, and a host of other famous gay men who went out of their way to announce they were not gay. When they finally do, the gay media embraces them and calls them brave. Takei is so beloved by the gay press he can’t fart these days without it making the news. And I’m glad he is happy now that he’s out. But as a little gay boy it would have meant a lot more to me if Lt. Sulu had announced he was gay back when he was a star. That he’s decided his second career is being an openly gay man, not so much. Thorpe, at least owned that. ”I’m ashamed I didn’t come out earlier,” he said in his interview. “That I didn’t’ have the strength to do it. I didn’t have the courage to break that lie.”

Granted, coming out to the world is a big step. But here’s a hint: if you are a celebrity and the press keeps questioning your sexuality, everyone already knows. And if you are not a celebrity, your mother already knows. Coming out is probably not quite as big of a step as you think it is. Living your life as who you are instead of hiding that truth, is. The media focused on Thorpe’s coming out this weekend. “I’m not straight” was the quote many news outlets went with. “I could have lived a very different life if I’d been out,” was a much more important message.

Out magazine just published its interview with Michael Sam, the man who just nailed the first openly gay professional NFL player title. It’s nice to see an athlete come out at the beginning of his professional career instead of years after the limelight has faded. It’s also interesting that as the NFL draft neared the media questioned which team would sign Sam because of the plus in having a gay athlete playing for their team instead of discussing how many would not out of fear of losing fan support. We’ve come a long way baby. And in his interview Sam describes just how far coming out has brought him.

If it turns out Thorpe is a bottom, some guy is gonna be very, very, very lucky.

Sam says he met his boyfriend – the cute little swimmer Vito Cammisano whom the rest of the world met when Sam planted a big wet one on him on live TV when he got the news the St. Louis Rams had selected him in the draft – while the two were still in college. Cammisano, a star of the University of Missouri swim team, was out. Sam was not. After a bit of a rocky start, the two got busy doing what two superbly conditioned penises do when they meet each other. But Sam was so scared of being seen in public with a known homosexual that the two spent their relationship’s formative years in hiding. In his interview Sam describes the lengths they went to in order to protect his secret, including late night trysts after which Sam would make his exit through a window to keep their budding romance a secret.

Sam credits the example of his boyfriend living life as an openly gay man as the main reason he decided to show his true self to the world too. Perhaps because he is younger than Thorpe and spent fewer years being closeted he has yet to realize what a different life he could have lived by being out. Instead, he mentions that when he and Cammisano did eventually hook-up, Sam got them both a bit tipsy first – not an unusual route for gay boys who have yet to come to terms with their sexuality, to be out, even to themselves. Nor was the extent the two went through to keep their relationship closeted unusual when at least one in a couple is still hiding from the world. Sam’s story probably resonates with many gay men. I know it did with me.

I’ve never really been closeted. I’ve always figured anyone close enough to me for my sexuality to matter should know. And have never cared much what anyone else thinks. I don’t wear gay pride t-shirts, but only because I’ve never seen one I liked. I don’t introduce myself as being gay because that is such a small part of who I am. And if in that instance it is the main part, that probably means I’m about to have sex. And whoever the lucky guys is probably already figured out I’m gay. Those who I’m not about to have sex with usually find out when I show up at some function or gathering with a guy as my date. Which works for me. When that date is firmly closeted, not so much for him.

When you are in love and out it’s adorable.

I had a fuck buddy for an eight-year run in Hawaii who was deeply closeted as a lot of local boys in the islands are. He wasn’t ‘visibly gay’ but his friends and family often wondered (often wondered meaning suspected, kinda knew, but were patiently waiting to be told). And I say fuck buddy instead of some other relationship related word ‘cuz sex was pretty much all we had. There were deeper emotions involved. But we spent those years entirely in the bedroom. He refused to be seen in public with me. We were not even allowed to go out to dinner together. The closest we got to being spotted together in public was when I would pick him up in my car from the shopping center parking lot where he’d park his car rather than park it anywhere near my house. ‘Cuz he was afraid someone would otherwise notice his car and ask why he’d been parked in that neighborhood. Fear makes you do some strange things. Even when the strange things you are doing are those that make your heart sing.

Eventually he was forced to lighten up a bit. He ended up working for me; his finances, college-life, and career made for an offer of employment he couldn’t refuse. We couldn’t let on that we knew each other outside of work, of course. And even though having dinner with the boss was a normal occurrence for other employees, he still couldn’t manage to bring himself to a point where he might be seen dining alone with another guy even though he now had an excuse. He forced himself to come to a work-related party at my house one night, and then spent the evening acting like he’d never been there even though there wasn’t a single stick of furniture in the place on which we hadn’t had sex at least once. Everyone else had a great time. He spent the night frightened that someone would ask him where I kept the glasses and he’d be busted if he knew.

A few years ago he got in touch with me. He’d finally come out. It was like talking to an entirely different person. He was happy. His family had not disowned him. His friends had not abandoned him. Coming out does not usually involve a 12 step program, but part of his process was that phone call. He needed to tell me how madly in love he’d been with me all those years when the most we could share were multiple orgasms (there is an upside to dating closeted boys). Well, okay, that and he was in the need for a bit of phone sex. But after that matter was taken into hand, he went back to talking about those years and how much he’d missed by hiding what really never needed to be hid. Like Thorpe he’d came to realize he could have lived a very different life if he’d been out. As happy as he was with his life as an openly gay man, the years he’d spent denying who he was still cast a shadow over a long period of memories; those times were still closeted even if he no longer was.

Uh, I did mention Tom Daley, right?

So, of course, I immediately flew back to Hawaii to bang the hell out of him. Kidding. But I did see him last year during a visit. And met his boyfriend. We went out to dinner together. It felt like summiting Mt. Everest. In his interview Sunday night, Thorpe said that part of his reason for coming out was that he didn’t want young people to feel the same way that he did. He said that his message was that you can grow up, you can be comfortable, and you can be gay. “I was concerned about the reaction from my family, my friends and I’m pleased to say that in telling them, especially my parents, they told me that they love me, and they support me,” he shared, adding, “And for young people out there, know that that’s usually what the answer is.”

It’s nice that George Takei considers himself to be the spokesperson for the gay community now that he is out, and thinks boycotting Hobby Lobby is the issue of the day. And it’s a shame that Thorpe waited until his Olympic career was well over before he decided it was safe to come out. But whether a famous person comes out for financial gain or because it’s just the right time to do so, if their message is how much better their life is by not hiding who they are, and if that message resonates with a closeted gay man – of any age – and helps them to begin a more fulfilled life, even the gay media’s fly the rainbow flag reaction is worth it. Because even if you are not famous, living your life being true to yourself is always the better way to go. Hopefully, we won’t have to wait for thirty years for Kristian Ipsen to realize that. ‘Cuz those years spent closeted and living in fear can never be replaced.

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It’s Almost Spring And There’s Bromance In The Air

12 Wednesday Mar 2014

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Yuzuvier: The Olympic’s hottest couple.

Just a few weeks ago the rice queens of the world swooned in unbridled lust when Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu took to the ice in Sochi where he won the men’s figure skating gold medal. The 19-year-old’s Olympic skills and youthful appeal set hearts pitter-pattering across the world with a lot of that thumping resulting in fans reaching for the closest bottle of lube. While those with faulty gaydar questioned the sexuality of Jason Brown, fans of the men from the land of the rising sun instantly grasped the importance of not allowing speculation to get in the way of an object of their fantasy; Hanyu being young, cute, and Asian was all that mattered. Besides, when you are wondering is he or isn’t he, that he is a male figure skater pretty much settles that question. And if you are Spain’s equally dreamy skating hunk Javier Fernandez, your best bet is to take a page from Nike’s advertising campaign and Just Do Him.

Two of a kind.

While fans of Hanyu wait in eager anticipation for a few of his nude selfies to surface, Javier ha been keeping his eye on the prize. He may not have won a medal at Sochi, but still came out a winner by capturing a gold medal cutie’s heart. Yuzuru and Javier’s adorable bromance has since been melting the ice of rinks around the world. A hug here, a butt slap and warm embrace there, the pair’s obvious enjoyment in each other is evident both on and off the ice.

Their eyes tell the story.

The two train together at the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club in Canada, and both are coached by Olympic silver medallist and openly gay figure skater Brian Orser who too once set gay men’s hearts aflutter. Orser still does, if you are into bears. And considering Hanyu’s well-known fondness for Winnie the Pooh, that makes sense. But he chose to switch coaches and make the move to Canada last summer because of Javier (some claim it was because Fernandez was landing two quads in his program and Hanyu wanted to do the same, but one look at Javier’s prodigious talents in tights should easily convince you otherwise).

Ice Dancing is not usually a same-sex sport.

Fernandez, who already had a thing going with Orser in Toronto said Brain asked him first if it was okay if they made it a threesome. “He said, there is this young skater, he is going to come here,” says Fernandez. “Do you mind it? Do you have a problem?” Javier didn’t mind and was actually excited to have Yuzuru training with him. “I’ll never have a problem with that,” he says. “Yuzuru, he is such an energy boy. He can work and work and work.” Ah to be young and able to achieve those multiple orgasms again.

Not being an native English speaker, it’s understandable Javier misunderstood ‘meet the press’ to mean an opportunity for him to press the meat of his best buddy.

Orser says his boys have become great friends and inseparable training partners. “One day, Javi fell on something and he just lay there, as he does’” Orser fondly recalls. “And Yuzu skated over, stopped and extended his hand, helped dust him off, and away they went. That’s how they are.”

“Keep your hand off my gay!” says Javier, photobombing a moment between Hanyu and Orser.

Hanyu is popular at the club both for his quiet friendliness and willingness to take to the ice with other skaters, even if Javier is his obvious favorite. Terry Nolan, assistant general manager of the club, said watching the two compete at Sochi was an emotional experience. “It tugged at our heartstrings,” he said. The pair’s bromance has been tugging at the heartstrings of fans ever since. They even have their own bromantically named hash tag #YuzuandJavi, and the all important name mash-up of Yuzuvier.

A bromance on ice.

Hanyu and the 22-year-old Fernandez have a lot in common, which is always a plus in a budding relationship. Both got into skating because of their older sisters, both eventually moved to Canada from countries where their opportunities were limited; close in age, they don’t speak the same native language but they communicate beautifully, bonding over their shared passions, going to competitions together, training under the same older gay man.

Looks like love.

Each morning in the locker room, Yuzuru greets Javier in Spanish and Javier greets Yuzuru in Japanese. It started as a mix-up and then it became a joke and then it became just another part of the life they share with each other. Hanyu likes the taste of Hola! in his mouth, and he likes hearing Javier stumbling over Osu! in return. But love conquers all. And Javi and Yuzu are the Olympic’s hottest couple. At least until that sex tape of Chris Mears and Tom Daley surfaces.

Adorable? Yes. Gay? Um, roger that.

The Thrill of Victory . . .

. . . and the joy in da feet.

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The XXII Gays of The Winter Olympics: Do Svidaniya Sochi, Anyoung Haseyo Pyeongchang

24 Monday Feb 2014

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The XXIII Games of the Winter Olympics promise to be much more viewer friendly.

Yesterday, some old man with a bad German accent declared the XXII Winter Olympics officially closed. Which probably came as a surprise to many who thought the Games were over a good week ago. You gotta feel a bit sorry for the Winter Olympics, they just don’t draw the world’s attention like their big brother does, but then even sports enthusiasts don’t quite get what the Winter Olympics are all about. There’s just too many events that seem like they were made up to fill airtime. I mean I’m glad so many snowboarding events are now part of the Olympics for winter, but you’ll note the Summer Games have never bothered to add skateboarding to their roster. No need. There’s enough real sports available to choose from for the real Olympics.

Next is Brazil, then Korea . . . whoever is picking the Olympic host cities deserves a pat on the back.

I’m probably one of the few who watched the entire prime-time coverage of this year’s Games. I’ve never watched the entire Winter Olympics before. And probably never will again. NBC’s constant cheesy attempts to wrench some emotion – or even a modicum of interest – out of its viewers was bad enough. But the nail in my future viewing’s coffin was what sitting in front of the TV for 4+ hours a night for 18 days did to me. I’m sure that ratcheted up my likelihood for suffering from alzheimer’s and/or senior dementia a decade sooner than my brain cells had planned. Worse, the immediate impact was that forced somnolency resulting in packing on poundage that would qualify me for instant citizenship in Sunee Plaza.

The Land of Morning Calm indeed.

But all is not lost. I could, of course, immediately go on a diet and relearn what exercise is. Instead, I’m gonna take a page from my brethren in Pattaya’s play book and celebrate my new-found corpulence. I’m gonna embrace my XXXXL size. But rather than just roast that fat by laying on the beaches of Thailand’s cesspool by the sea, I’m gonna put those extra pounds to work for me. I’ve got four years to learn a new skill set. So expect to see me marching into the stadium with my fellow not-really athletes at the 23rd Winter Games in Pyeongchang.

Four years to go and then it’s those hot boys of Korea.

Yup, my new goal in life is to become an Olympian. And I’ve found the perfect not-really a sport to use as my vehicle for my run for the gold: the four-man bobsled. I know the bear who drives the bobsled is called the pilot, and the bear who stops the thing after it crosses the finish line is the brakeman. I’m not sure what the two bears in the middle are called. Other than dead weight. But that’s the job for me. I figure with a full four years to learn how to push a bobsled for about ten steps, which seems to be the entire skill-set required, this is doable. Sure, there’s also the technique of being able to jump into the sled and execute a perfectly synchronized hand swoop while doing so, but as a gay man I figure I already have a natural talent for that one. And I think, if my teammates and I demand it, having our sled designed by Porsche instead of BMW, will mean we’re looking at gold in South Korea. Well, that and eating a lot of Big Macs.

Part of the trick in four-man bobsledding is carefully choosing who sits in front of you.

Don’t laugh. Come 2018, y’all will be not watching the XXIII Games of the Winter Olympics, but I will be living them. And while y’all will be drooling over all the Korean hotties out looking to be done by an Olympian, I’ll be doing them. Not that I’ll be hanging with the bobsledders mind you. Partying with the snowboarders, yes. Scoring male figure skater booty, no doubt. (You know that with the majority of them being gay, the percentage into daddies has got to be high. I mean do you really think Tom Daley hooked up with Dustin Lance Black for his body?) But the real draw will be the boys of The Land of Morning Calm. Whom, I assume, will all be lining up to bite my gold medal. Just a soon as I learn how to pronounce Pyeongchang.

But then maybe I’ll wait for 2020 and try my hand at ping pong in Tokyo instead.

Yup, I’m planning on redefining just what the opening ceremonies mean. And I might even do a few twinks, just to make y’all jealous. Because the thrill of victory is just that much sweeter when it involves someone else’s agony of defeat. And that’s what the Olympic spirit is all about. So let the Games begin . . .

[‘The XXII Gays of The Winter Olympics’ are a series of posts about hot Olympians, gay competitors – both present and past – and general articles about the 2014 Sochi Games of interest to gay men. So, yeah, lots of hot male eye candy. Click the The XXII Gays of The Winter Olympics graphic below for additional news, stories, and pictures.]

The XXII Gays of The Winter Olympics: Getting Naked With Brian Joubert

22 Saturday Feb 2014

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Brian Joubert insists he’s not gay. And doesn’t skate like one either.

French figure skater Brian Joubert has a long history with homosexuality. But you’d better not call him gay. Gay for pay, however, is a different story. He had no problem posing nude for a gay magazine when he was 19. In fact, he says he enjoyed the experience. But he sued his ex-girlfriend, a former Miss France, for saying he was gay and that she’d been his beard. Taking an ex to court is probably not the best move for landing future girlfriends. But then since Brian is still single at the age of 29, maybe that’s what he intended.

Brain, in case you haven’t figured it out, insist he’s not gay. Frequently. But the subject of homosexuality seem to creep into very interview he gives. Well except for the one where the interviewer said it was time for some girl-talk and then asked him where on his body Brian packed on the poundage. That’d be his thighs and butt according to Joubert. ‘Cuz those are the two body parts straight guys pay the most attention to.

The French-born figure skating hearththrob began his career on ice at the age of 4, and as it seems to be the story for many Olympic male skaters, it was because his older sister was taking figure skating lessons. Brain says he was more interested in hockey than in figure skating, because he thought that figure skating was a sport for girls, not for boys. The following year, he entered his first competition. But in a manly way, of course.

Joubert is always quick to point out there is nothing gay about his skating. ”After you decide on the music and a theme for the program, it’s important that the costume also reflects that. But it doesn’t have to be too feminine, not with too many sequins or too many “decorations” or layers,” he says. “I, myself, don’t like being feminized.” That’s why he skated in a Gladiator outfit for sevral years.

Brain’s not-gay body.

Brain also blames the gay Canadian skaters for changes in his sport in 2004, which enhanced the artistic aspects over the technical ones. “The Canadians created that to encourage North Americans to Vancouver,” he says. “You should be aware that their skaters are often homosexuals and specialize in skating effeminate. Now suddenly, some are past the 10th spot on the podium!”

It sounds like Joubert has a problem with the gays on ice. But not with gay fans. When asked by an interviewer, “After all, it can’t be bad to be wanted by men as much as you’re wanted by women, right?” Brain’s reply was, “Yes, it’s nice.”

And his not-gay penis too.

Joubert came out into the skating world with his first victory at the 2004 European Championships and silver medal at the World Championships in the same year. Billed by the French media as a top medal contender for the 2006 Winter Olympics, Joubert finished a disappointing sixth. He had a better showing at the 2006 World Championships, winning the short program and finishing with a silver medal behind Stéphane Lambiel. Which, rumor has it, is just what Lambiel prefers.

A three-time European champion, and eight-time French National champion, in total Brian is a six-time World medalist and ten-time European medalist. But has never managed to reach the podium at an Olympics, even though Sochi is his fourth Winter Games where, as the oldest competitor in the men’s event, Joubert was 7th in the short program but only 14th in the free skate, finishing 13th overall. “I just can’t do it at the Olympic Games.” Joubert says. “ Every time it goes badly. I don’t understand why. I can’t explain why.”

Joubert strikes a manly pose for a gay magazine. (Musta been a Canadian photographer.)

Maybe Brain needs to take some tips from those gay Canadian skaters who concern him so much.

The oldest competitor in the men’s figure skating events at Sochi, Joubert is still quite the hunk. But not in a gay way, of course.

The XXII Gays of The Winter Olympics: Free-Style Skier Kévin Rolland Is A Moneyboy

21 Friday Feb 2014

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Kévin Rolland won a bronze in Sochi, but gets a gold for being adorably cute.

My coverage of the Winter Games relies heavily on naked male flesh. Just in case you hadn’t noticed. Which means matching up attractive faces with (keeping fingers crossed) hot, exposed bodies. And you’d think France’s bronze medalist, free-style skier Kévin Rolland would be a good candidate. He’s cute, popular, and has landed lots of modeling gigs with major international clothing brands. But that’s the problem with winter Olympians. They just don’t get naked often enough. And the best photo I could find of Kévin showed he’s a moneyboy at heart.

Thank the gods for Facebook.

But too bad about the fish. No problemo, I’ll take what I can get. The 24-year-old who’s been on the podium at most free-style skiing championships since his debut in 2009 may pose too often bundled up in a parka, but at least one time he slipped out of the snowsuit to show his fans what he’s made of. And as for that moneyboy thing, he sure posts a lot of pix of him getting massages from older men. So ya never know.

What we do know is that for Kévin the answer to boxers or briefs is boxers. And if does end up going the moneyboy route, that’ll bring him in more cash than trying his hand at being a ladyboy again.