Have you ever sat and watched the Olympics for the wrong reason? I bet you have. I bet most people have and I also bet that they aren’t watching the shooting or the marathon, good though those events are. I’m thinking of sexy guys in tight lycra speedos and swimwear here – the Greek/Roman wrestling, the gymnastics and the diving. Where else can you get to see so much toned muscle, smooth skin and intriguing bulges for free?

Well, you can search around the net of course and see what you can come up with. Let’s try a search with an image search engine, for Olympic Swimmers, and see who was the hottest swimmer at the Beijing Olympics 2008.

Michael Phelps without a doubt. There are hundreds of cool (or I should say ‘hot’) pics of him to be had. I could list hundreds of URLS but that would look unsightly, instead here is my favorite page: squarehippies.com It contains several images of the smooth-skinned hunk and we’re particularly fond of the ones where he wears he swim-shorts very low on his hips, giving us a tantalizing view of the Olympic tattoo. (I know most swimmers shave their chests but do they also shave their pubic hair do you think? Yum.)

(Oops, I was just distracted by a site I found that’s dedicated to hunky sportsmen. Check out fitsportsmen.blogspot.com for sexy muscle guys and hot swimmers.)

Back to Beijing and then off to towleroad.com/michael_phelps. Yes it’s him again, it seems every page that concerns Olympic Swimmers at the moment concentrates on Michael Phelps, and rightly so, he’s done a great job. But this page compares him to the man whose records he beat, Mark Spitz, also sexy in his, now slightly old-fashioned, way. Scroll down that page to find magazine cover shots of more sexy swimmers including Ryan Lochte.

I’m delving further into what folk who post on the Web think is sexy, when it comes to athletes from the Olympic Games – and concentrating on the men. I’m full up with Phelps so am talking generally here. How about the USA Gymnastics team? Six sexy guys including redhead Justin Spring and sexy Alexander Artemev. The official site, usa-gymnastics.org gives you pics and profiles. Or Australian diver Matthew Mitcham? Not only did he have the courage to dive from a 10-metre platform but he also had the courage to come out and declare his homosexuality before competing in the games, the first Australian athlete to do so. And he’s good looking too but hitched, so you can forget snuggling up to his tight, wet body after a quick dip in the pool.

Ok, so we know there are plenty of good looking and naturally fit guys out there getting wet, standing on diving boards or flinging themselves around in a water polo game but what makes them so sexy? Apart from their looks and bodies of course. I reckon it’s what they wear. Swimwear that just about reveals everything when wet, not those all on one body suits, though they can be sexy too. What they wear must be approved months before the games take place. Suits are designed to eliminate drag in the water and there is a debate as to whether swimmers go faster depending on what suit they are wearing. But I think the purpose of a swim-suit isn’t to make the swimmer go faster, it’s to make our pulses race faster, particularly when you have a stunning looking guy stretching on a diving board or bending over on the starting blocks about to dive in. You know he’s going to come out wet with that suit clinging to him…

Oh well, only another four years to wait for the next round of hot Olympian swimmers.

TOO HOT: Be careful searching for Michael Phelps official myspace page. I have seen many phishing sites and fake myspace and facebook pages generated in the searches for the official page. After searching for several minutes I came across what looked like his real myspace but I do not really think it is. We will keep you updated if we find the official or real myspace pages for the hot swimmer.