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After stripping down posed in nude for Playboy magazine in 2007, former Olympic gold medalist swimmer Amanda Beard has launched naked, anti-fur campaign outside for PETA. But the Chinese authorities first canceled a planned unveiling, citing safety concerns. The campaign somehow unveiled at other spot.

The ad features Amanda posing in front of the Water Cube swimming venue. She says in the ad

Seeing animals slaughtered to be worn as fashion is awful to me, so I’m definitely against wearing fur … I’d much rather go naked than ever put a dead animal on my body.

Read: Launch of Beard’s nude PETA protest poster booted from hotel

Visa “Go World” 2008 Olympic Commercial “Come Together” gets a voice over (narration) by Morgan Freeman. In this exclusively made for Beijing Olympics ad he said, there are only six billion people in the world. May be the ad was recorded some time back, because by a conservative estimate approximately the number is 7 million people.

This is what he exactly said with his Godish heavenly voice:

“There are six billion of us. We all come from unique places, with unique ways of looking at the world. We don’t always agree but for a few shining weeks we set it all aside. We come together to stand and cheer and celebrate as one. We think all the things that make us different and remember all the things that make us the same.”

Visa’s “Go World” Olympics campaign featuring US athletes celebrates human accomplishment and the border-transcending connectedness people experience during the Games’ few short weeks. From epic to personal, the spots celebrate the human experience, designed to be both timeless and contemporary, writes Duncan.

Visa World: Come Together Olympics Commercial

Series of athletes whose inspirational stories are mentioned in the promotional website are:

Billy Mills

Kerri Walsh

Jim Thorpe

Paul Hamm

Steven Lopez

Bryan Clay

Dwight Phillips

Erin Popovich

Bob Beamon

Robert (“Bob”) Beamon (born August 29, 1946) is an African American former track and field athlete, best known for his long-standing world record in the long jump.

Beamon, from South Jamaica, Queens in New York City, attended Jamaica High School[1] and the University of Texas at El Paso. On October 18, 1968 at Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Beamon set a world record for the long jump with a jump of 8.90 m (29 ft. 2½ in.). It was one of the most astounding feats in the history of the Olympics. Wikpedia

Nastia Lukin

Anastasia “Nastia” Valeryevna Liukin is an American artistic gymnast of Russian origin. She is the 2005 and 2007 World Champion on the balance beam and the 2005 World Champion on the uneven bars. With nine World Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon Miller as having won the most World Championship medals of any American gymnast in history. Wikipedia

Kip Keino

Kerri Strug

Derek Redmond

Derek Redmond (born 3 September 1965, in Bletchley, England) is a retired British athlete. During his career, he held the British record for the 400 metres sprint, and won gold medals in the 4×400 metres relay at the World Championships, European Championships and Commonwealth Games. However his career was blighted by a series of injuries, and he is best remembered for his performance at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona where his hamstring tore during the 400 metres semi-final but he fought through the pain and, with assistance from his father, managed to complete a full lap of the track as the crowd gave him a standing ovation. Wikipedia

Aly Wagner

Cheri Blauwet

Michael Phelps

Michael Fred Phelps II is the famous American swimmer and a World Recorder Holder in various swimming championship. Born in June 30 1985, Michael Fred Phelps II hails from Baltimore, Maryland. One of his greatest achievements is holding 8 medals in Summer Olympic 2004 held in Athens. Among the 8 Olympic medals, 6 were gold thus holding the world record for achieving greatest number of medals in a single Olympic. Michael Fred Phelps II first took part in 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney at the age of 15 as the youngest American male swimmer in an Olympic event in 68 years! He became 5th in 200 meter Butterfly. Wikipedia

You may also chip in with your own story.

The sensuous rhythmic gymnast from Canada Alexandra Orlando will be blogging during the Olympic Games. Well if you think the blog has been created just for itsy bitsy ranting then you are mistaken.

She will write in couple of blogs. I don’t know whether she herself will write the entries, the way I do..hehe..or some professional writer will do the ghost writing for her.

Both the blogs are part of marketing and advertising campaigns from Lenovo and CBC. Lenovo, the Chinese giant has asked athletes from around the world to do blogging for them. You may get a look at it at www.summergames.lenovo.com. But Alexandra will also do blogging for Lenovo at www.alexandra-orlando.blogspot.com.

She will also do blogging for CBC.

Aggressive that core to the nature, official sports drink of the Beijing 2008 Olympic games, Coca Cola marketing team for Powerade brand it seems is not content with bringing in cyclist Rebecca Romero and Triple jumper Phillips Idowu on board dare bare. It has also gotten swimmer Gregor Tait to make more splash consumer’s minds.

Yes, Rebecca Romero, Phillips Idowu and Gregor Tait have never ever been photographed before, so the novelty factor will always work here. The essence of the new InnerGear concept for ‘Powerade’ illustrates that no matter how sophisticated an athletes’ outer gear (sports kit), it is not effective without your Innergear – what you put inside your body.  Research has shown that as little as a 2% drop in hydration can seriously affect an athlete’s performance, and elite athletes in Beijing will have to combat the extreme weather conditions if they are to compete with the best in the world. Link

Powerade advert, a Coca Cola brand has transformed hot favorite Triple jumper Phillips Idowu from a dedicated sports person to a glam filled celeb avatar. Accompanying him hot favorite swimmer Gregor Tait and cyclist Rebecca Romero . Phillips Idowu is appearing all nude for Powerade commercial in the Beijing Olympics. The 29-year-old World Indoor champion is now not only favorite for the Olympic title after a successfully leaped of 17.58m in last July but also becomes a subject of discussion amongst non sports fanatic. That’s what the Coca Cola wanted and it hits right bang on the target.

Cathryn Sleight, marketing director for Coca-Cola Great Britain, which launched the Powerade campaign said,

Everyone is used to seeing athletes in competition or winning, but we wanted to give people the chance to see the real make-up of an athlete and their muscle and power

Philips Idowu profile