It's A&A time again – Sunshine and quality photo edition

Yes, that’s right, once more time to scour the interweb for some fine photography of some fine sportsmen and women. As ever, clean, safe for work pictures only please, and only of real sportspeople (and diminutive Australian singers if you must! 😉 )

It’s a dull, rainy day in London, so I propose a combined theme of sunshine and quality photography.

I’ll kick off with a favourite pic of mine, Cancellera railing it round Parliament Square. I do this on my commute home every day, but I’m way faster, obviously…! 😉

Over to you!

I think it was sunny.

I think I can see a winky there 😉

Don’t start that rob2 ffs!

Well the sunny theme has scuppered my idea of posting Lindsay Vonn’s impression of Sharon Stone, so here’s her skiing anyway

and suffering (aaah)

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FTFY TSY. 🙄

Yuliya Sapunova..

Jenn Shelton in the process of winning the Pear Blossom run.
You’ve got to admire someone who chooses their running attire pattern to match the race name.

Flash gets wood:

one for someone else to get wood over………..

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It’s a dull, rainy day in London

That will teach you 😀

How long has runner 1391 been hanging there checking her arse??

Fair play to him though 🙂

I’m not agreeing with TJ, but to be honest I am finding this Friday A & A business a bit dull frankly. Much more fun with a bit of controversy attached. Can we re-brand it as A & A with Guilt Trip or similar?

Can I just say DON’T do a google image search for female weightlifter.

It will take years of therapy to get over that.

Camping it up at an all vegan strongman competition.

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I’m the skinny one on the front row with the cycling tan. 😳

all vegan strongman competition

Dunno why I found that funny, but I did 😀

the bloke on the front row right should get some cream for that rash.

They all look like they need a good hotpot…

It’s not a rash, it’s from stone loading.
Same guy, different competition.
150kg on to 120cm platform.

i thought one of the parts of A&A meant “attractive”? 😆

silly vegans, some meat will soon see them thinking straight 😈

Cycling tan = Attractive. 8)

MTG – Which Army camp is that photo fom, Swinnerton ??

Did the bloke lifting that stone used to have an arse?

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I see the guy in the middle at the back got over his punch up with Indy.

Dunno why I found that funny, but I did

I find it funny that I was about 100kg at that time, yet the other guys make me look skinny. 😕

Anyway, enough about me, how about another pale skinny vegan.

Ronda Rousey.

Qualified for the 2004 Olypics aged 17, the youngest judo competitor at the games.
Won gold medal at the 2004 World Junior Judo Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

In April 2006, she became the first U.S. female athlete in nearly 10 years to win an A-Level tournament as she went 5-0 to claim gold at the Birmingham World Cup in Great Britain. Later that year, the 19-year-old won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships, becoming the first U.S. athlete ever to win two Junior World medals.

Currently ranked as one of the top three women in the world. She won the silver medal at the 2007 World Judo Championships in the middleweight division and the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan Am Games.

Won bronze at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, the first American to win an Olympic medal in women’s judo.

Now competing successfully in Mixed Martial Arts.

Having a tripod instead of legs must make it difficult for her opponents.

Or is she just arsing around?

Miwa, Japanese Beach Ball Champion

And a group of Japanese wrestlers in the sun

Guo Jingjing in Barcelona

Tom Daily

Japanese Beach Ball Champion

What do you have to do for that? Blow them up?

Anneke Beerten in the sunshine on a bicycle

and fitting the Good Photo criteria

Not sure we’ve had Anastasia Luppova before.

2009 European and World Billiards Champion.

(They don’t play pool outside)

Does the Japanese Beach Ball Champion have her hood pieced? I can just make something out.

Guess who again, sorry…

Is that Japanese beach baller mumbling something?

I think it means she is (was) ranked No.1 in Japan, (points scored, earnings etc)