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Kate Uhlaender, 25
Skeleton Racer
Hometown: Breckenridge, Colo.
This snow bunny’s got a need for speed! A winner of two
Skeleton World Cup titles, Uhlaender was also named one of the
15 sexiest athletes to watch by the Bleacher Report. But she’s
got brains to boot. She’s enrolled at the Colorado Mountain
College as a science major, and her favorite book is “The
Fountainhead.”

Lindsey Vonn, 25
Alpine Ski Racer
Hometown: Vail, Colo.
Va-va-voom! Sure, Lindsey Vonn has movie star good looks, but
she’s also the first American woman to win two consecutive
World Cup championships. Sorry, boys, she’s taken. She lives
in Colorado with her husband, Thomas Vonn, a 2002 Olympic skier.

Chris Drury, 34
Hockey
Hometown: Trumbull, Conn.
Captain of the New York Rangers, nicknamed “Captain Clutch.”
He’s a far cry from the slightly pudgy pitcher who led his
hometown to victory over Taipei in the 1989 Little League World
Series.

Kelly Clark, 27; Hannah Teter, 23; Lindsey Jacobellis, 24; Gretchen
Bleiler, 28
Snowboarding
The foursome shed their parkas for this month’s Glamour
magazine. Clark has a bumper sticker on her board that reads,
“Jesus I cannot hide my love.” Teter, a queen of the
half-pipe, would like to wear that crown again. Jacobellis, whose
last-minute midair flub cost her the gold in the last Olympics,
is trying again in the snowboard cross. Bleiler, who is married
to former snowboarder Chris Hotell, would like to upgrade from
a silver to the gold in her half-pipe event.

Todd Lodwick, 34
Nordic Combined Skier
Hometown: Steamboat Springs, Colo.
On his Facebook page, the five-time Olympian says a perfect day
is skiing in the morning and “hottie yoga with the wife
in the afternoon” then dinner with his kids and friends
at night.

Tanith Belbin, 25 and Ben Agosto, 28
Pairs Figure Skating
Hometowns: Detroit and Chicago
The hottest couple on ice has never even dated. Belbin and Agosto
have been skating together since 1998 and won a silver medal at
the 2006 Olympics but have maintained a strictly “professional
relationship.” But Belbin, who was crowned by Men’s
Health as the Olympics’ hottest athlete, has been romantically
linked to another hot ice skater, Evan Lysacek.

Justin Olsen, 22; Curt Tomasevicz, 30; Steve Holcomb, 30; Steve
Mesler, 32
Four-Man Bobsled team
They look like a bunch of nightclub bouncers, but these hunksters
prefer to hit the ice at 90 mph. They’ve nicknamed their
bobsled “Night Train” because they’re going
to steamroll the competition.

Julie Chu, 28
Hockey
Hometown: Fairfield, Conn.
A two-time Olympic winner, she's the first Asian woman and first
Chinese-American to play for the US Olympic ice hockey team. Now
she's hoping for a slapshot heard around the world. She's no hockey
puck -- the New York City-born forward attended Harvard.

Shani Davis, 27
Speedskater
Hometown: Chicago
In 2002, the 6-foot-2 speedster became the first black skater
on the US Olympic team, winning a gold and silver at the Turin,
Italy Olympics. Now, he's heavily favored in four events.
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