Tom Daley, 18, Diver
Tom Daley, 18, Diver
Five things you might not know about Tom
• He drives a Mini Countryman
• He got Kate Moss to pose for his GCSE in photography
• Suffered from awful homesickness at the start of his diving career
• Youngest competitor at the Beijing Olympics in 2008
• He has a Cheryl Cole calendar up on his wall at home and he wants to teach her to dive and he tweeted her happy birthday – does someone have a crush?
Although the youngest of our hot Olympians, gorgeous Tom Daley has a lot of toned torso to ogle at. And ogle we will.
Andrew Triggs Hodge, 33, Rower
Andrew Triggs Hodge, 33, Rower
Five things you might not know about Andrew
• Pumps himself up before races by listening to Rage Against The Machine
• Andrew hasn’t got an issue with the theory of capitalism
• He has an MBE
• Andrew used to play Rugby before getting into rowing
• He’s a natural blonde
Imagine punting on the river and eating strawberries and cream with this strawberry blonde. We can.
Ashley McKenzie (right), 23, Judo
Ashley McKenzie (right), 23, Judo
Five things you might not know about Ashley
• He first got interested in Judo after a fight over a packet of Pokemon cards when he was 11
• We are still unsure whether he had the shiny Charizard
• He suffers from ADHD
• Was on the BBC series Olympic Dreams in 2009
• Sadly, Ashley wasn’t on the third series of the X Factor in 2006 – that is someone else
Possibly the toughest out of our bunch – we’d still have a go in the ring with him
Chris Mears, 19, Diver
Chris Mears, 19, Diver
Five things you might not know about Chris
• Chris is sponsored by a Funeral Directors
• He almost died of a ruptured spleen in 2009
• Starred in Tom Daley’s Sexy and I Know It spoof music video
• His dad Paul carried the Olympic flame in Hadleigh in June
• Chris took diving lessons to stop him jumping off his furniture at home
A free falling daredevil, this cute athlete is only going to get hotter with age. Come on time, pass faster.
James Ellington (middle), 26, 200m runner
James Ellington (middle), 26, 200m runner
Five things you might not know about James
• When he put himself on eBay to get a sponsorship deal, the winning bid was a hoax
• His X Box name is unraisedjayman
• James has over 20 tattoos
• He’s blogged for the Metro newspaper
• Ended 2011 as the fastest Briton over 200m
Tattooed, gorgeous and clever – we’d have bid every penny in the heat Christmas party pot for a piece of James. Sadly it is just pennies.
Robbie Grabarz, 24, high jumper
Robbie Grabarz, 24, high jumper
Five things you might not know about Robbie
• The man loves to party
• Robbie’s personal best is a whopping height of 2.36m
• He enjoys eating Chicken Wings
• His tipple of choice during training is fizzy water – none of the tap rubbish
• He tweets some very random musings – “I’m going to dress as a fox and climb into your garden” – how odd.
He could dress as anything and climb into our garden. Enough said.
Louis Smith, 23, Gymnast
Louis Smith, 23, Gymnast
Five things you might not know about Louis...
• Hurrah – he’s single
• He was offered a choral scholarship aged seven
• He is good friends with Ashton from JLS
• First learnt how to use the pommel (horse?) by putting his feet in a bucket hung from the ceiling by a piece of rope – very odd.
• A fashionista, he’d love to start his own fashion label
Fashion conscious, well connected and he’s got the body of a god – does this man have any faults?
Aaron Ramsey, 21, Footballer
Aaron Ramsey, 21, Footballer
Five things you might not know about Aaron
• Before he turned to football, he was a rugby player
• He is captain of the Welsh national squad
• Very weirdly – he has what has been named as Ramsey’s curse – his goals have preceded the deaths of Whitney Houston, Steve Jobs and Osama Bin Laden
• He enjoys watching Spartacus
• Like most boys, he likes Call of Duty
Aside from the creepy curse, we’d watch this lovely Welshman play 90 minutes every week