Because life is sexier when you’re going for the gold.

1. Have you seen my muscles? They’re pretty big.
2. Life is all about hurdles, especially this one by my bed.
3. I like to call them “running underwear.”
4. I’ve been carrying this torch for you all night, let’s go put it out at my place.
5. Looks like you’ve got a good archery arm, how’s your aim?
6. I’m not sure what sculling is but I like the sound of it.
7. Judo? Sure. I love taking people down on a mat.
8. Why don’t you pull in your mainsail and set a course for my lake.
9. You are so damn flexible.
10. Oh I’ve been playing handball for a long time.
11. I bet you could easily lift me off the ground.
12. I know a few other ways we could play table tennis.
13. Joint locks, pins and grappling? Is that what you do in wrestling?
14. You are such a good rider.
15. My backhand doesn’t feel right can you help me with my stroke.
16. A pentathlete? What else are you good at doing all at once?
17. I’m a black belt… somewhere.
18. Let me show you my javelin grip.
19. You won’t want to escape from my half nelson.
20. My you have an impressive shuttle cock.
21. I don’t understand a thing you’re saying but I will pretend to.
22. I’ll ping your pong if you pong my ping.
23. I think you’re done with those warmups, let’s get them off.
24. Do you always respond on the command of “stroke?”
25. I’d like to be your pommel horse.
26. I’d give you the gold any day.
27. Want to get sand in naughty places?
28. I’d be happy to take home your bronze.
29. Can I be a part of your training regimen?
30. Wanna teach me to sing your anthem?
31. Even if you don’t win a medal I’ll still raise your flag.
32. Can you help me with my tumbling routine?
33. My that’s one handsome steed.
34. Let’s see how perfectly we can time our dismounts.
35. I’d love to have you spin my discus.
36. You obviously have a lot of endurance, I’d love to test those skills.
37. Good game! I’m sure you’ll score again soon.
38. Do you always have that good of aim?
39. I’d like to give you a good dressage.
40. Milliseconds may matter, but I love a good slow play.
41. Can I touch your medal?
42. I’d give you a ten for synchronization.
43. You have been eating your Wheaties.
44. Your breast stroke has great form.
45. You can be my starboard any day.
46. Parallel bars? Is that what Olympians call them these days?
47. Do you rate dives on depth or form?
48. I never miss my hand off.
49. I’d love to be a sponsor so I could see my name all over you.
50. In the spirit of the games, we should get better acquainted.

Image: An Honorable German

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Show some Olympic spirit with these limited-edition bangles, inspired by the Olympic rings and made entirely from bomb shards.

The start of the 2012 London Olympics will be celebrated with a lavish opening ceremony on Friday.Whether or not you’ll be following along on the television, you can show your Olympic pride by wearing these limited-edition Peacebomb bangles from Article22.

Created in honor of the unity and spirit of Olympic competition, the bangles are inspired by the Olympic rings, which were designed in 1912 and debuted at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics and represent the five continents involved in the games. Like all pieces in Article22’s Peacebomb collection, each bracelet is made in Laos, entirely out of melted bomb shards. The bangles are hand cast by artisans who collect scrap metal from the 250-260 million bombs that were dropped over the Laos countryside during the Vietnam War and wrapped with nylon (colors) or leather cord (black).

For each Peacebomb product sold, Project Peacebomb donates funds equivalent to the cost of clearing 1 to 15 square meters of land in Laos from unexploded bombs. In true Olympic spirit, you are also helping people in war-torn areas of the world earn a living wage.

Available for $20 for a single and $90 for the whole continents set from Article22.

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They just did it.

Like most modern Olympic Games, London 2012 seems to be as much about advertising and corporate placement as it is about sport and athleticism.

There’s the requirement that any transaction at an Olympic venue is completed by a Visa card; there’s the world’s largest McDonalds located in the middle of the Olympic park; and there’s the army or 300 “brand police” deployed across the UK to protect the integrity of high paying sponsorship deals.

However, a refreshing attempt to reverse the onslaught of monopolistic corporate advertising can be seen on the streets of the Olympic borough of Hackney. To promote their new lightweight Flyknit trainer, which uses woven technology to create a shoe that produces 66% less waste than Nike’s leading running shoe, Nike enlisted a team of creative minds and innovators from the London area.

The team’s goal was to create an advertisement that “illustrates a change you want to see in your streets.” The resulting billboard is a visual sustainability map of the places and people that contribute to a sense of connectivity in the east London neighborhood.

Illustrator Daniel Frost and communications designer Alice Moloney, both Royal College of Arts graduates who were tasked with overseeing the process and final product, saw what they were creating primarily as a piece of collaborative art, and an advertisement only in a secondary sense.

“The advert side of it is really minimal. If you’re going to have a billboard, it might as well be nice and artistic to look at,” Frost said.

The effort was part of a series of creative workshops taking place at Nike’s 1948 London studio this summer as well as in New York City, all intended to “motivate and inform urban regeneration for the local community,” instead of just selling stuff. In addition to the sustainability think tank that Frost and Moloney were a part of, the Flyknit Collective will address issues of design, function, and movement.

Moloney said that the difference between their creation and the plethora of billboards and advertisements plastered all over London is that it was inspired by a group of interested and local minds, rather than a product of a focus group or marketing executives.

“A billboard for me is the most successful way of reaching a lot of people given the scale we want— it’s not so much about the advertising to me as the fact that it’s the appropriate medium,” Moloney said. “With our project though, it makes complete sense that you put the output back into the place that inspired it.”

Creating the map meant defining sustainability itself, which for Moloney, Frost, and the workshop participants was much more about people than objects and materials. The map highlights places like Arnold Circus in Shoreditch, where people commonly eat lunch and gather, and other outdoor spaces that build community like farmers markets.

“Before the project began I knew how to use the word sustainability but I didn’t feel brave enough to use it in a way where I would be asked what it meant,” Moloney said. “I think about it terms of people and the community—people being interconnected, people being inspired by each other. It’s not just about waste and objects but about personal relationships as well.”

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