Category Archives: Olympics

As one half of the Canadian figure skating team competing for a medal in Ice Dancing, this is Scott Moir, who will do his best to twizzle to the gold tonight. For me, the best part of the ice dancing is the selection of outfits. Figure skating is, as a general rule, the place for flash and pizzazz, and ice dancers embrace that more than any other genre. As for Mr. Moir, he and his partner Tessa Virtue were the Olympic champions in 2010, and the silver medalists in 2014. That’s flashy enough in itself. 

Representing Spain, figure skater Javier Fernández had a stellar showing in his short program at the Winter Olympics. The long program is slated to take place today and it looks to be a nail-biter. Nathan Chen all but knocked himself out of gold-medal contention, so it’s all up to Adam Rippon to bring home some precious metal for the US. Japan is giving the real threat to Mr. Fernández, with two amazing athletes: Yuzuru Hanyu and Shoma Uno. Hanyu currently sits comfortably in the lead, Fernández is right behind him, and Uno rounds out the top three. It’s going to be quite the night of competition. 

Paralympian Andrew Kurka is participating in more events than I even knew existed: Downhill, Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super-G and Super Combined. Based on the ‘Downhill’ part I’m assuming these are all ski events of some sort. Mr. Kurka started out in his childhood as a wrestler, before an ATV accident damaged his spinal cord. Undaunted, he moved to the monoski, on which he has been garnering awards, accolades and a slew of championship medals. 

With a name set for All-American marquee glory, Tucker West is making a more prominent name for himself on Team USA, hurtling to greater recognition by way of the luge. He joins fellow Team USA mates Nick Cunningham, Adam Rippon, Nathan Chen, Chris Fogt, Shaun White, Steven Langton and John Daly in getting a gratuitous shirtless post during these Winter games. The show is not even close to being over…

The Winter Olympics 2018 kick off today in PyeongChang and there’s no better way to commemorate the occasion than with a video of ten notable hunks stripping slightly down for the event. Thanks to Cosmopolitan magazine for giving equal-opportunity ogling to these fine athletes, most of whom will be featured in posts coming very soon to this site. (Truth be told, the video is more endearingly awkward than sexy for these athletes, but skin is skin for the thirsty among us.)

Stay tuned for more gratuitous Olympic programming here. It’s how we roll. 

When last we saw Pita Taufatofua, he was oiled-up and shirtless at the Summer Olympics, so the fact that he just made it into the Winter Olympics is kind of a miracle. He’ll be way more covered up than he was when the weather was warmer, and he shirtlessly waved his country’s flag at the Olympic ceremonies. He worked his ass off to make the switch from taekwondo to cross-country skiing, and my hat goes off to anyone willing to step outside of the boxes we want everyone to stay in. Good luck, Pita!

Hubba-hubba, zing-zing, give these guys an Olympic ring! Here is the U.S. Bobsled Team, a.k.a. the new screensaver for Scruff. We will be looking into their individual merits in good time; for now, feast your eyes upon the men as a whole. Double entendres welcomed and intended.

Who says the Winter Olympics are only about figure skating?

The 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang are almost at hand. Allow me to introduce the mascot for this year’s games: Soohorang, based on the White Tiger so rightly revered in Korea.

‘Sooho’, meaning protection in Korean, symbolises the protection offered to the athletes, spectators and other participants of the 2018 Games. ‘Rang’ comes from the middle letter of ‘Ho-rang-i’ the Korean word for ‘tiger’ is also the last letter of ‘Jeong-seon A-ri-rang’, a cherished traditional folk song of Gangwon Province, where the Games will be held.

Set to begin airing February 8, the Winter Olympics will bring back one of the only sports that ever truly interested me: figure skating! I would rather watch a Triple Axel over a triple play any day, and if that makes me stereotypically gay then I say ‘Heeyyyy!’ For some reason, I’ve never focused as much on the Winter Olympics as on the Summer Olympics – perhaps because everyone is so covered up, clothing-wise. I mean, who knows what’s really under all that winter ski paraphernalia. It’s just too bulky to tell. This year, however, we’ll be looking underneath the armor and padding and layers of fleece and doing a few Olympic Spotlights like we did a couple of summers ago.

There are several competitors who look likely to make splashes on the Olympic stage next month. We’ll begin with Gus Kenworthy, who has deigned to disrobe in the ESPN Naked issue, among other places. He had made a lucrative playground of the snow, in and out of his gear.

Another openly-gay athlete, Adam Rippon, was recently named to the Olympic figure skating team. His self-branded sass should provide plenty of on-ice drama, but he’ll have to contend with the king of quads, Nathan Chen, who looks like the USA’s best hope at a figure skating medal. He has some muscular tights to fill, considering that Evan Lysacek was our last champion.

Stay tuned for more Olympic Spotlights and Olympian Hunks of the Day in the coming weeks…