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Harry Aikines-Aryeetey

LHIS IS 25-year-old Team GB sprinter Harry Aikines-Aryeetey.

Here at kaos, we like to think of him as a living God, or if that's a bit OTT for you, settle for The Most Beautiful Man On The Planet. This London-born superhero (his parents are Ghanaian), "discovered his talent for running fast when a dog chased him in the local park". He describes himself on Twitter as "a bubbly guy who happens to run fairly fast in a straight line".

Harry only bothers with the gym once or twice a week, he says (slacker), and is shocked at the suggestion he could bench press a person (let me be the first to volunteer).

Sadly, we've only managed to track down round 120 pictures of Harry, but there's a bunch of videos after the jump to make up for it.

Enjoy.

James Ellington is out

...of the Olympics, sadly.

Seasoned readers of kaos may recognise the man with the might rack as the London boy who auctioned himself on eBay in order to pay for his training, and made a sexy appearance on the cover of a free weekly.

Louis Smith As You've Never Seen Him Before

WHENEVER I FIRST READ something about Louis Smith, it was on an American site.

This is galling for a number of reasons, not least because Smith is a Londoner. He's ours, dammit! (I've also noticed the stories about Smith have usually been pulled from the online editions of newspapers, a resource I've only recently woken up to making use of myself. I now check in with The Independant daily, but it seems like I should add The Guardian too).

You all know about British Olympic medalist Louis Smith, of course. Oh what, you don't? Then I pity you, I really do. A boy built like this should be seen by all.

The Guardian story is all about Smith modelling clothes. Yeah, he looks good dressed up, but we'd all rather have more of this:

Previously - LENSED: Louis Smith

Elsewhere - Flying Colours

*This article was edited on 05th August 2012 to remove references to an American website kaos is boycotting.

Louis Smith

Louis Smith, the 19 year old Londoner who earned a bronze in Beijing this year (the Olympics - remember them?), demonstrates the results of hours spent writhing around on a pommel horse in these new amateur snaps.

Read Louis's story here. Plenty more nutritionally balanced pictures of the yummytastic boy babe here.

Jamal Brown

Pictured: Ivy League track & field athlete Jamal Brown, who will feature in Out magazine's Out 100.

First the Olympics, then, er, Gladiators - it's all sport, sport, sport around here lately. However, picture perfect Jamal's account of coming out to his team at Dartmouth College is a rare good news story. You can read it here.

Jamal's photo (above) is part of an ongoing project by Jeff Sheng featuring images of 'out' high school and collegiate athletes. Track and field cutey Jamar (below) takes the silver for me (sorry), but you'll have your own favourites.

Check out Fearless - A Photography Series by Jeff Sheng, here.

24

On it goes.

Charles Junior Hendricks, 18 years old, was stabbed to death in Walthamstow, North London, on Sunday. A 19-year-old and a 17-year-old have been arrested.

He is the 24th teenager murdered in London this year. The news caused barely a ripple in the frenzy of Olympic flag-waving this weekend. No doubt the media are saving the superlatives and the finger-pointing for no. 25.

Weda Campbell, Charles' grandmother, said: "He was a beautiful boy, I'm telling you this from the heart not because he was my grandson, but because he was a very good boy."

24 beautiful boys are dead this year. Who cares? Who remembers?

Boys Over There

Apparently, there's a bunch of people somewhere on the island of China (it's part of the Russian Federation - honestly, didn't any of you pay attention in geography?) running around and throwing things, and some are even jumping headlong into artificial bodies of water. Who knows what it's all about, but I can't see it catching on.

In any case, here at theka-osblog, we're not as shallow as the rest of you, and realise that there's sports other than sex. Moreover, these sports professionals happen to look jolly good, so that even those of you averse to running around and jumping into sandpits will have something to consider.

My favourite games haven't started yet - you know, the running - but we've had some jolly fit lads contorting their bodies in the name of something called gymnastics today. Most lovely of all is Japan's Kyosuke Tomita, who can do some jolly clever things with a vaulting horse (no giggling at the back, please):

Gosh, just imagine... Yang Wei of China also makes a pretty picture, and may have won a nice prize for his exertions:

Then there's Matthew Mitcham, who's Australian (but that isn't his fault, he was probably just born that way). He's also a Homosexualite, which is nice. This is what he looks like:

Here's a photo of two nice Colombian boys, Victor Ortega and Juan Guillermo Uran, falling into water:

Colombians in speedos -what more could you ask for, really? The running and stuff starts at 0200hrs London time, and I foresee an all-you-can-eat buffet of pecs, calves and deltoids.

Sport's great!

Behold The Deformed Swastika

The logo for the 2012 London Olympics has been wheeled out for the perusal of the general public. A snitch at just £400,000 ($US800,000) - coincidentally also the average price of a house in London -it apparently uses the date 2012, with the Olympic circles stuck somewhere in the top righthand corner as an afterthought. It comes in a range of colours - pink, blue, green and orange. Clearly the 2012 organising committee wants to prove its PC convictions by showing that it's colourblind.

The logo (referred to as a "brand" by everyone involved) is targeted at young people, in the same way that "trendy" BBC youth television of the 1980s was (i.e. a bunch of middeclass suits getting around a table and brainstorming what the kids are into these days). To this end, the jagged logo has a hint of graffiti art about it (or that's what they'd like us to think). Reaction has been largely negative - The People don't like it, but what do they know about art?

The phrase "deformed swastika" has been bandied about. It also has an air of the Nazi SS logo about it, which is nice. The BNP will be pleased. People who love the 1980s will also be pleased, since it looks like it was designed back then.

An online petition has been launched to scrap the abomination, and has already been signed by 5000 Londoners.