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Gro Hammerseng (Norway, Handball)
The 28-year-old is captain of Norway’s handball team, which is favored to win the gold medal in Beijing. Hammerseng is in a relationship with teammate Katja Nyberg, and if you want to know anything else about these two women, you should make yourself comfortable and get started reading the 10,000+ posts about them in AfterEllen.com’s Gro Hammerseng and Katja Nyberg forum.
Katja Nyberg (Norway, Handball)
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Nyberg (pictured above in the red jersey), 28, was voted Most Valuable Player in the 2007 Women’s Handball Championship. Judging by the photo above, MVP apparently includes the ability to freak out the opposing team’s players with the fiercest scowl ever. For even more discussion of Katja, Gro, the Olympics and handball, go to this fan forum.
Judith Arndt (Germany, Cycling)
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Arndt took home the Silver Medal in the road race at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, which prompted her to flip off the German cycling officials for not nominating her girlfriend, cyclist Petra Rossner, to the German team.
“Of course, we’re happy about the silver medal,” she said, “but if the nomination had been given to Petra and she had been on the start line then things would have been different.
We wouldn’t have had to race so recklessly and after all she is the fastest sprinter in the world.” Go to her official website here (in German).
Imke Duplitzer (Germany, Fencing)
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Duplitzer, 33, is an
épée fencer who won the Silver Medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics; Beijing is her fourth Olympics. In protest of China’s Communist government, Duplitzer has decided to skip the opening ceremonies.
She said: “I am not blaming 1.3 billion Chinese. There is a big difference from the Chinese people who are looking forward to celebrating the games, and the government, which is using the opening ceremony as a platform to show how perfect everything is in China.” Visit Duplitzer’s website here.
Linda Bresonik (Germany, Soccer)
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The 23-year-old midfielder has most famously been involved in a soap opera-like love triangle with former teammate Inka Grings and coach Holger Fachs (a man). If you’re more interested in her stats than her love life, go here.
In case you’re keeping score, that’s three soccer players, two softball players, two handball players, one cyclist, one tennis player and one fencer. And judging from the amount of gossip online about various women’s soccer teams, I think that soccer just might have scored a goal as the dykiest sport ever.
Discuss these ladies and more in the AfterEllen.com Summer Olympics 2008 forum thread.
So, where are the guys?
Joseph Singer Said So, where are the guys?*************
Well, I am really going to go out on a limb here and suggest that possibly 99.9 percent of them are really deep in the closet.
Don’t imagine there will be a single Inner Mongolian, Tibetan or East Turkestani (Uighur) athlete amongst the mostly all Han Chinese Olympic teams of China. (Han is the main Chinese ethnicity amonst those that consider themselves Chinese and speak Chinese)
The Chinese government is concerned with harmony over human rights, so that means people in Beijing are not allowed to rent to Tibetans, Turkestanis (Turkic speaking Uighurs from Xinjiang province in China’s Northwest) etc, not allowed to give work to Tibetans etc in Beijing and must fire them, etc. No ethnic minorities from the provinces allowed in Beijing during the Olympics.
Harsh and brutal crackdowns on Tibetans in Tibet for their uprising against Chinese rule in the time of the Olympics.
The Chinese brutalized the Tibetans during the Chinese invasion of Tibet and have worked to crush and destroy Tibetan culture even more ruthlessly right now when the Tibetans rose up against Chinese rule at the time of the Olympics.
Beijing has not curbed its severe air pollution causing hardship for the athletes’ needs for healthy air and Beijing does not deserve being awarded the Olympics for China’s many human rights abuses against its own Han group, against the Tibetans, and various others of the national group native to China in addition for failing to provide a suitably clean environment for the Olympics.
It is so cool to know that dykes are everywhere and everything.
You missed one: Cuty Matthew Mitcham
Forgot Gro Hammerseng and Katja Nyberg. Partners and teammates on Norway’s women’s handball team.
Davi-May Said: August 10th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
“It is so cool to know that dykes are everywhere and everything.”
Yeah, because fags certainly aren’t everywhere like on Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, Project Runway, Brokeback Mountain, Out magazine, 90% of the Advocate magazine, gay.com, most hair salons, interior decorating shops, etc. etc. etc.
Actually, there were several Inner Mongolians on the Chinese wrestling, judo and field hockey teams, and the basketball teams also have had them in the past. The boxing team had two Uighurs and a Kazakh.