In preparation for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, track star-turned-bobsledder Lolo Jones is eating 9,000 calories a day. And not just protein shakes. Bacon. Double. Cheeseburgers.

Before the salt water had even evaporated from superhuman Diana Nyad's magical swim cap, other people in the long distance swimming community were all lined up with their suspiciously sour grapes-y doubts that maybe the 64-year-old had somehow faked part of her inspiring swim from Cuba to Florida. And they've got…

Breasts: are they more trouble than they're worth? No — that's a rhetorical question so ridiculous that it shouldn't have even been asked in jest, and I apologize. But while knockers are a mammalian necessity, when it comes to athletics, they're often in the way, and they might even slow us down. What's a titslinger…

You’ve heard exercise can be good for you, but can it also be bad for you? Maybe! But before you set about burning your running shoes and letting the sweet, delicious smell of synthetic fabrics massage your brain into a semi-psychotropic state of euphoria, you ought to consider the caveat to this apparent win for…

A recent study by the Department of Sociology at the University of Louisville asks a very good question: Where are all the women in Sports Illustrated? Unless they're models wearing bikinis, they're certainly not on the cover. Researchers found that of the 716 SI issues published between 2000 and 2011, a mere 35 of…

In case you missed it: This Nike Free ad from Nike Japan stars gold-medal-winning Olympian Gabby Douglas in a situation we can all relate to: She arrives home and finds that she's forgotten her keys. She's locked out. But Gabby Douglas does not need your stinking keys.

You guys, 13-year-old Maryana Naumova — who hails from Russia — is freaking strong. In this clip, she bench-presses 220 lbs., then 230, then 240. Apparently her form is terrible? According to YouTube haters? Here's what I know: Her smile — and dip-dyed hair — are awesome.

University of Montana football player Jordan Johnson's nationally publicized saga is now over: a jury only took a little over two hours on Friday to acquit the suspended quarterback of rape.

Today we have Aimee Mullins, the athlete/model/actor/activist extraordinaire, here to talk to you, the readers, in the comments. This is excellent.

We are pleased to announce that we have a very special guest joining us today at Jezebel: the athlete, model, actor, and speaker Aimee Mullins will be here for a Q&A session with you, our readers, starting around 1 PM E.S.T. Mullins, whose legs were amputated below the knee when she was just 1 year old, is known for…

Last night in New York, athletes rubbed elbows at the 33rd Annual Salute To Women In Sports Gala. If you miss some of the faces you got to know during the Olympics, fret not: Rowers, gymnasts, swimmers, track stars — the gang's all here!

I'm a runner who doesn't look like a runner. I am a six-foot-tall woman who has hips and broad shoulders. In fact, I look more like a basketball player or a swimmer. Yet I happen to be a pretty good runner. I regularly finish in the top 10 percent of local races, and I've even come close to winning a couple of 5Ks. I…

Olympic gold medalist and soon-to-be 30 Rock "sex idiot" Ryan Lochte has captured America's imagination with his chiseled pecks and flaccid, chlorine addled mind. And while his time in the public eye has been characterized by such knowledge nuggets as "Getting back in shape is rough but luv it" and "The world is my…

Forty years and untold laundry loads of filthy sports bras after Title IX became law in the US, American women have something shiny to show for it: 2/3 of America's medals in the 2012 Olympics. If US women were their own country, they'd have placed fifth in the medal count standings. Thanks, Richard Nixon!

We've made it to the end of our Olympic Thighlight coverage and what a ride it's been. What sights we've seen on this journey together — the biceps! The abs! The well-tones calves! And now we must wait a full four years before doing it again. (Sure, there are the Winter Games, but think of all the muscle-covering…

I don't know about you, but all of this Olympic Thighlight coverage has really motivated me to get in shape and when I say "get in shape," what I actually mean is stuff my mouth with generic cheese puffs, while looking at photo after photo of incredibly athletic and attractive individuals who haven't so much as…

Ryan Lochte has been threatening to try acting for several days now, and he's followed through in record time (we should have expected that one of the fastest men in the water would quickly swim to an indelible part of the pop culture psyche). Here's his first installment of LochTV, a Funny or Die video series that…

Shush, for we have no more need for words. Let us instead speak through through the foot arch of the runner, the flexing calves of the field hockey player and the encompassing reach of the b-baller. Let us speak through Olympic Thighlights.

There have been several great stories to come out of the gymnastics competition at these Games—the Fierce Five's dominant performance to win the team gold medal, Gabby Douglas' victory in the all around, Kohei Uchimura's coronation as greatest male gymnast of all time, the British men's historic team bronze in front…

It's not secret that the Bacchanalian fuckfest that is the Olympic Village operates under a loose moral code. But that freedom to screw whomever is matched by very, very tight branding restrictions imposed by the IOC. How strict? This week, Olympic "brand police" launched exhaustive hunt for "rogue condoms" after one…