SWIM queen one day, style icon the next. Stephanie Rice has fast-tracked her way up the style ranks to sit pretty alongside some big name international beauties.
Also on the list are the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker and Kate Hudson, in the top 10 of Who magazine's glamour issue, out today.
Other Aussies keeping illustrious company in the 10 are Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman.
Rice said she liked to frock up, but her swimmer's physique sometimes made it difficult.
''I like casual T-shirts and casual jeans but I also really like cocktail dresses that are nice and fitted around the waist,'' she told the mag. ''It's hard trying to vary your style when I am a swimmer. I have big shoulders, I can't wear a lot of options that are bigger up top because it makes me look too big.''
Rice also addressed whispers surrounding a romance with US swim hero Michael Phelps. ''At first, when they (the media) made a statement about it, I thought, 'OK, well that's pretty funny, whatever,' then it just kept going on and going on.''
What can I say, it's an amazing piece of journalism.
Sarah Jessica Parker? She's easily the most repulsive woman I've ever had the misfortune of seeing.
she forgot to mention her sizable schnoz.
if i were prime minister i'd make her and grant hackett fight to the death.
And I would back that decision.
that would play well on struggle street
What does that gesture even mean??
it means ''stop staring at my schnoz, and check out my gaping cockholster instead, BADALEX''
What about this one, adam?
Love Letter from a Sports Fan
By Robert Drewe
Oh Stephanie Rice, Stephanie Rice,
One glimpse of you and words don’t suffice
To capture your glamour, your sleek lissom limbs,
So slender and modish for someone who swims
world-beatingly quick.
Never mind snot and goggled eye rims,
At your first victory smile I felt an epiphany.
The cascading black hair. ``Who’s that chick?’’
It was Stephanie.
Oh Stephanie Rice, Stephanie Rice,
It’s not enough you’re incredibly nice,
The epitome of Olympic-pool heaven
For males since the nationals of 2007.
Cannily, earnestly, hard-working, steadily,
Finding your niche in the 400 medley.
An event up to now somewhat lacking in spice
Until, enter pool left, voom-voom: Stephanie Rice.
Oh Stephanie Rice, Stephanie Rice,
I lie awake flu’ishly, paying the price
Of adoration and awe and, let’s face it, another
Sensation I’d rather not mention
In front of Raelene your mother
And Warren your Dad.
Since (what was your intention?)
That underwear ad!
Oh Stephanie Rice, Stephanie Rice
When you hit the water it turns hot in a trice.
Chlorine becomes perfume, damp towels are mink.
Your clinging black Fastskin ensures that I think
Speedo-esque fantasies concerning zippers
(although not involving the Tricketts or Schippers).
In becoming the mistress of all the four strokes:
Butterfly, freestyle, back- and that raunchy one,
You forced me, your fan, and the world’s other blokes
(Caring less for canoe, yacht or gun,
And eschewing hockey and anything pedal-ly)
To now sit there awaiting Stef’s 200 Medley.
Oh Stephanie Rice, Stephanie Rice
The media’s slavering, the way you entice.
Flashing eyes, sensual mouth, a toss of that hair,
Such je ne sais quoi, pizzazz, oomph and flair.
(Even your name is attractive and frisky
And easily rhymed without getting too risque.)
Now you sport a gold medal, so what happens next?
It’s still up in the air but, I’ll guess, based on sex:
Endorsements, commercials, all that Thorpey stuff.
Millions and millions, but not quite enough
For a beautiful swimmer to know her right mind.
Leave the pool? Join the world? Leave the grind?
Oh Stephanie Rice, Stephanie Rice,
Who of us fans knows your sacrifice?
The 5 am starts, the long endless laps,
The Facebook dramas, the sly, nosy paps,
(their cameras poised for revealing snaps).
And ahead and behind you, the endless black line
To and from sporting nostalgia-time.
But Stephanie Rice! Stephanie Rice!
Now you’ve won gold again, not once but twice
A finger-tip slide into sport’s paradise!
Now we own you, Stephanie. Stephanie Rice
Copyright Robert Drewe
Sadly, our current prime minister, just like the previous one, would make them mate and thus spawn a race of super-Aussielympians.
Well, Thorpie's never gonna do it,is he?
haha come on PG, you're the mono captions editor- what happened? Retired?
Pauly, you are the funniest bitch ever.
OMAGOD FE SAID BITCH
C'mon, Pauly. That's totally bait for another cockholster gag.
Nacty, google her, see how difficult it is to find a picture of her with her mouth closed. Not my fault is she's gagging for it.
I see our babies' faces in your eyes.
*if
She's fucking smoking, why you guys giving her shit?
For some reason i was thinking condoleeza rice when i looked at this thread.
In the end, it was a let down.
Come on bebop, I'm just taking the piss out of a fluff article.
I don't agree that she's ''smoking'' though. She's an overexposed, decent looking athlete.
bebop's imaging the kind of hand-job she could give with those biceps. She is hot, this is true.
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nah they're called bogs.
and as you you untold...jizelle?.....nachos? I think I love you.
King _ Rat : This isnt hard gay rap, but the lyrics are pretty awesome to some of it
Probably the hottest aquatic bogan gay-hater ever.
Oh yeah, you're right! Grundies is/was a tv production company. My mistake.
Grundy was a bin.
nah gnome, you have correctly used the rhyming slang.
Reg Grundy = undies.
totally acceptable.
Finally, nachos gain recognition they deserve.
a lesbian in my office said this of this whole affair
''i don't give a shit who she calls a faggot, that's not the important issue to me, to me what's important is the fact that if my partner of 10 years is put in intensive care i don't count as people who can have access to her, if everyone who's getting in a huff about this would get up in arms about our lack of rights that you guys can take for granted we could actually move forward as a society''
Despite being obviously offensive, I found it quite unusual that a young woman of her age would use the word faggot.
In general, I find women don't use this word at all.
It's mainly used by douche head guys.
I actually feel quite bad for her having lost a massive sponsorship and earned public scorn over something that was probably kind of stupid and offhand, and while not the smartest thing to say, not really the dumbest either. As area gay man Ben Law says:
Then again, first world problems. I don't feel that bad for her.
dumb people are dumb.
Serious shoulders at the press conference.
= Shower head guys. Douche is french for shower.
Once again, you have broadened my cultural horizons.
we had to look at this whole ''crisis'' in my PR tute yesterday... covering the real problems obvs
End of story, really.
ken oath mate
perhaps she was refering to bikers
She's really fucking inexplicably attractive.