Kelly SothertonCountry: England
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Sotherton finished fifth in the heptathlon, but may move up to 4th since silver medalist Lyudmila Blonska has tested positive for doping.
Taryne MowattCountry: US
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Mowatt is a pitcher for the US softball team, and will be playing for gold against Australia.
Lauren JacksonCountry: Australia
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Australia’s women’s basketball team has reached the semis, and will play China on Thursday.
Fabiana MurerCountry: Brazil
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Murer is a Brazilian pole vaulter, and she struggled through organizer’s losing her pole in the finals, and failed to clear the minimum distance. She is planning on protesting.
Sania MirzaCountry: India
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Mirza represented India in tennis, losing in the first round in singles, and the round of 16 in doubles.
Margherita GranbassiCountry: Italy
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Granbassi is an Italian fencer. She won two bronze medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics, in the individual and team foil events.
Brittany DircksCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Competing in the trampoline event.
Caitlin LoweCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Member of the US Women’s softball team, good bet to win a gold medal.
Sophie EdingtonCountry: Australia
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Edington swims the 100m backstroke, but failed to make it out of the prelims, swimming the 13th fastest time overall in the heats.
Katerina BadurovaCountry: Czech Republic
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Made the Czech team as a pole vaulter, but failed to get out of the prelims.
Libby TrickettCountry: Australia
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Trickett hit for the cycle at these Olympic games, winning a gold, a silver, and a bronze in swimming.
Lolo JonesCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Jones was a favorite in the 100m hurdles, and was leading in the finals, but she unfortunately clipped a hurdle, which led to her finishing seventh.
Stephanie RiceCountry: Australia
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Rice won the gold in the 400m individual medley, the 200m individual medley, and also the 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay.
Kara GoucherCountry: US
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Goucher competed in the 10k, finishing 10th with a time of 30:55.16.
Natalie WardCountry: Australia
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: The Australian women’s softball team will be playing the US for the gold medal. So probably a silver for Natalie Ward, if history is any indicator.
Kate HoovenCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Competes Friday in women’s synchronized swimming.
Tatiana GolovinCountry: France
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Made the French team but was forced to pull out with injury. Close enough for us though, she’s definitely still hot enough for our list.
Nastia LiukinCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Liukin won a silver with the US women’s team, and then won a gold in the individual women’s all around competition. She won two more silvers and a bronze in various other competitions, giving her five total medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Catherine OstermanCountry:
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Osterman pitches for the US Women’s softball team, which will be playing Australia in the gold medal round.
Laure ManaudouCountry: France
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Manaudou is nearing the end of her competitive life, and it showed in the 2008 games. She swam in three events, and finished last or next to last in all three events.
Dara TorresCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Dara Torres, at the age of 41, has won three silver medals at the 2008 Summer Games. She narrowly missed a gold in the women’s 50 meter freestyle race, finishing a hundredth of a second behind winner Britta Steffen.
Juliana VelosoCountry: Brazil
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Veloso is a Brazilian diver who has yet to compete.
Alexandra OrlandoCountry: Canada
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Orlando is a rythmic gymnast, and will be competing through this weekend.
Christine ArronCountry: France
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Arron runs the 100m, but couldn’t get out of qualifying in 2008. She won a bronze in 2004.
Susanna KallurCountry: Sweden
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Kallur represented Sweden in the 100m hurdles, and made it to the semi-finals, but hit a hurdle a did not finish.
Victoria PendletonCountry: England
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Pendleton is an accomplished sprint cyclist, and she added to her resume with a gold in Beijing in the women’s sprint.
Rita DravuczCountry: Hungary
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Dravucz plays water polo for Hungary, which will be taking on Australia for the bronze medal.
Flavia DelaroliCountry: Brazil
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Delaroli is a Brazilian swimmer that didn’t make it out of prelims.
Francesca PiccininiCountry: Italy
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: The Italian women’s volleyball team made a run to the quarterfinals, where they lost to the US in five sets.
Alona BondarenkoCountry: Ukraine
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Alona Bondarenko is making a bid to replace Anna Kournikova in the tennis world, scoring lucrative endorsements that seem to have as much to do with her looks as they do with her play. She is pretty talented however, and she finished fourth in the women’s doubles event.
Dominika KopcikCountry: Canada
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Kopcik has yet to compete, synchronized swimming is ongoing this second week.
Kerri WalshCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Kerry Walsh paired up with Misty May-Treanor to beat a Chinese team on Wednesday to win the beach volleyball gold medal.
Guo JingjingCountry: China
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: It’s been a great Olympics for Jingjing, who’s 2-2, winning gold medals in both the Women’s 3m Springboard and the Women’s Synchronized 3m Springboard.
Amy AcuffCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Acuff is a high jumper who finished fourth in Athens, but she failed to make it out of prelims this go round.
Misty May-TreanorCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: May-Treanor won the gold along with teammate Kerri Walsh, continuing their domination of women’s beach volleyball.
Jelena JankovicCountry: Serbia
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Jankovic considered withdrawing, but she toughed it out and made it to the quarterfinals, where she lost to Dinara Safina in a tough three set match.
Almudena CidCountry: Spain
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Cid is competing in Rhythmic Gymnastics which starts this Thursday.
Allyson FelixCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Felix won her semi-final in the 200m, advancing to the finals where she’ll be a favorite to win a medal.
Alicia SacramoneCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Sacramone had a rough go of it in the team portion of her competition, falling both on the beam and during the floor exercise. She still earned a silver however. She also placed fourth in the individual vault competition, just missing a medal.
Heather MittsCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Mitts is a member of the Women’s soccer team, which is favored to win a gold medal. They’ve made the finals and will be playing Brazil for the gold.
Branca Feres & Bia FeresCountry: Brazil
How they’ve fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: There’s actually conflicting info on whether or not these twins are actually competing in the Olympics at all, and I haven’t been able to dig up anything that says conclusively either way. But they are synchronized swimmers, and we’re going to go ahead and call that close enough, because come on, look at them.
Leryn FrancoCountry: Paraguay
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Franco failed to advance past the preliminaries in the javelin, where she actually finished second to last, but that doesn’t hurt her ranking on our list. She’s easily one of the hottest athletes in these Olympics. Her real career is probably modeling more so than athletics, but she claims the modeling is just a sideline that enables her to have the time and finances to compete. But whatever, she’s hot which is what truly matters.
Natalie CoughlinCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Natalie Coughlin has had an incredible Olympics, and would have probably been the American star of the games if it weren’t for Michael Phelps. She’s won an impressive six medals, including one gold.
Daniela HantuchovaCountry: Slovakia
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Hantuchova lost 6-1 6-3 to Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki in the second round of the women’s tournament.
Logan TomCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Logan Tom is a member of the US Women’s Volleyball team, which advanced to the semi-finals on Wednesday beating Italy in a dramatic five set win. They play Cuba next.
Amanda BeardCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Beard’s best days were probably behind her, so it was a bit surprising that she didn’t retire after the 2004 Athens games (her 3rd Olympics). She only competed in the Women’s 200m Breaststroke in Beijing and failed to make it out of the heats, finishing sixth in her heat, and 18th overall in the prelims.
Jennie FinchCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Finch is a member of the US Women’s Softball team, which will be going for a gold medal against Japan early Thursday morning.
Maria SharapovaCountry: Russia
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Sharapova never got out of the gates for the Olympics, pulling out just before the start claiming injury. But she was technically on the Russian team, which easily gets her a spot on our list.
Hope SoloCountry: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Hope is the goalie for the US Women’s soccer team, which is going for a gold medal against Brazil on Thursday.
Ana IvanovicCountry: Serbia
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Like Sharapova, Ivanovic pulled out of the Olympics citing an injury, but we like her so much she still makes it to the top of our list. She’ll be the top seed at the upcoming US Open though, so she apparently wasn’t hurt too badly.
