Greco-Roman Wrestling: Where Do I Sign Up?

Olympic wrestling …had I known this was an Olympic sport I would have auditioned for it a long time ago.

And then there’s the Greco-Roman discipline, which is a style where wrestlers can use their arms and upper-bodies to bring their opponents down, and they are not allowed to grapple below the waist.

Wait. No grappling below the waist? Where’s the fun in that?

h/t Towelroad

A Dip In The Shallow End: Hot Guys In Rio

Yes, it's been two years four years [thanks Raybeard, I was overcome with the hotitudeness] since the last Summer Olympics, and so it's time to take a dip in the Shallow End where we discuss the athletes, not for their prowess in their sport, but for their basic hotness because, yeah, I'm shallow like that ...

Italy’s Alex Ranghieri plays beach volleyball … and he has huge balls. And I do love that Australian swimmer Rhys Howden still wears the Speedos in the pool. Just sayin …

Four men who don’t take their shirts off to compete … damn damn damn … Bulgarian tennis player, Grigor Dimitrov; Jimmy Butler and his fabulous hair playing basketball for the US; Miles Chamley-Watson, all covered up and still hot, fencing for the US; Kerron Clement, sweatin’ on the track for the US.

Naturally, I’d have swimmers in the Shallow end … clockwise … Australia’s Cameron McEvoy and James Magnussen; Italy’s Luca Dotto, who also models because … why not; and Sebastiaan Verschuren, in his undies, for the Netherlands.

Now, you gotta be tough to play rugby, and it doesn’t hurt to be hot, too, since all those other beefy hot men are chasing you … Damian De Allende from South Africa, and Australia’s Ed Jenkins.

And, yes, it’s true, some of the hottest bodies are the gymnasts, though, sadly, some of them are of the Pocket-Sized variety; but I can make do … clockwise … the UK’s Brinn Bevan; Cuban-American hottie, Dannell Leyva for the US; Brazil’s own Francisco Barreto; and a pair of American brickhouses, Jake Dalton and Sam Mikulak; finally, Epke Zonderland, of the Netherlands.

And lastly we’ll end where we started last Friday with hot and oily Pita Nikolas Taufatofua of Tonga.

Who were your Hot Men this first week in RIO?

If You're Gonna Break Twitter, Might As Well Do It Oiled Up and Hot

Pita Nikolas Taufatofua.

The name slips off the tongue as though it’s covered in baby.

Pita is on Team Tonga at this year’s Olympics in Taekwondo, but so far it’s been his oiled up and hot entrance as the Tongan flag-bearer that’s peak our interest … among other things.

But Pita isn’t just about baby oil and big poles — see what I did there — he’s also about helping those less fortunate. The Australian-born — oh the list of jokes I could do about going down under is enedless — 32 -year-old has spent most of his “adult life working in homeless shelters with the underprivileged to show and teach people the power of self belief.”

Hot and kind and generous and oily and living on Tonga, an archipelago of 169 islands in the South Pacific between New Zealand and Hawaii.

I’m packing my grass skirt and my baby oil.

Pita???