Female athletes mostly known for their hot looks – In a skit on Inside Amy Schumer, the comedienne parodies how female athletes are prized for appearance rather than prowess. In it, two sports announcers commentate a match between fictional tennis players Bridget Everett and Amy Schumerenka (parodic takes on Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova, respectively).
More..
- 10 Signs she’s truly in love with you
- Top 10 hottest Billionaire daughters in the world (With Pictures)
- Top 10 sexiest female celebrities in Nigeria for 2015 – See who’s number 1 now! (With Pictures)
- Top 5 Richest comedians in Nigeria and what they charge per show (+Photos)
All along, the announcers refuse to acknowledge Everett’s talent, saying only that she’s temperamental and “heaves and sweats like a Clydesdale,” but praise Schumerenka’s “on-court charisma” despite her athletic ineptitude. At the end of the skit, Schumerenka receives a crowdsourced consolation prize, greater than Everett’s winning prize, because she was “so gorgeous throughout the entire match that it was almost like [she] won.”
This calls to mind the J.K. Rowling and Serena Williams incident, in which JK Rowling tweeted her support for the tennis superstar and someone replied: “she is built like a man,” echoing the sentiment of the president of the Russian Tennis Federation, Shamil Tarpischev, who quipped that Venus and Serena were “brothers.” It also reminds us of the controversial endorsement disparity between Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova, the latter attracting $10 million more from companies even though she’s an inferior player. Williams accepted this with dignity, saying: “I’m happy for her because she worked hard, too,” and understanding the sentiment, best summed up by USAToday’s Chris Chase:
“The argument goes that since Serena is so much better on the court than Sharapova, she deserves more money from companies, a belief so deluded and so at odds with everything we know about sports, entertainment and business that it boggles the mind. (Meryl Streep is the best actress, how dare she not get salary of a Jennifer Lawrence!)”
With that all now said, let’s plunge into this list of 10 female athletes who, in spite of athletic skill, are mostly watched for their sexual merit.
10. Danica Patrick
Danica Patrick is the only ever woman to win a race in the IndyCar Series (2008 Indy Japan 300). In fact, she is the most successful woman in the history of American open wheel racing. In 2008, she was the first woman to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pole, turning in the fastest qualifying lap in 18 years and qualifying for the Daytona 500. But if you said her name to any racecar fan, he’d probably say: “Oh yeah, she’s hot.” Heavy compiled a list of the twenty sexiest pictures of Danica Patrick, and we can’t say we blame them. In a sport dominated by pasty white boys, Danica Patrick is the sexiest thing to have ever drifted across the finish line.
Navigate using <-> arrows below
Discussion about this post