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Female Athletes Were the Big Trending Stars of the 2012 Olympics

by Alanna Bennett | 2:45 pm, August 17th, 2012

There’s been a lot of discussion surrounding the role of women in the London 2012 Olympics. It was the first Olympics in which every participating country allowed women to compete, where an African-American girl took home gold for the Olympics team for the first time, and where McKayla Maroney‘s Vogue face took over our computers with its pure memeability. Ryan Lochte may have shown the world that he’s essentially a real-life Hansel from Zoolander, but it was the female athletes who really made a splash when it came to their impact on social networking sites.

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We Can't Have Nice Things

People Upset About the Appearance of Olympic Athletes, Set Straight by the Athletes Themselves

by Alanna Bennett | 11:45 am, August 7th, 2012

Last week we posted about our rage over the utterly ridiculous (and unfounded) complaints circulating the web over Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas‘ hair. As we wrote it we were kind of secretly hoping that we were blowing it out of proportion, that it was a small enough story that it would never get back to Douglas herself. No such luck. Douglas has most certainly heard about the unflattering attention her hair has been getting by some, and she’s responded in kind. Click through the jump to see what she has to say, along with some other Olympic athletes who have been receiving some less-than-flattering attention based on their appearance.

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