Britain’s Olympic bobsledder Gillian Cooke became an Internet hit when her skintight racing suit split open, revealing her bottom to a stunned, worldwide TV audience.
However, despite more than 1 million YouTube viewers now being familiar with her anatomy, the 27-year-old would prefer people were able see footage of her and Nicola Minichiello lifting gold for the two-women bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics.
Cooke’s “wardrobe malfunction” unexpectedly gave her sport a brief moment in the spotlight, but she has since laughed it off, choosing to concentrate on adding Olympic gold to the world title they secured at Lake Placid last year.
“It definitely brought the sport into the public eye,” said Cooke, recalling the embarrassing moment when her spandex suit ripped at a World Cup event in St Moritz. “It was actually a prototype garment. That’s why we test, so these sorts of things don’t happen at the Games. At least we now know we can cope with anything. You can’t do anything else but laugh about it and move on.”
Meanwhile, Minichiello, the driver to Cooke’s brakeman, was to undergo laser surgery on her left eye after competing in the 145kph sport with only “60 to 70 percent” vision in recent World Cup events.
“It was really strange,” she told the Daily Telegraph. “It affected not just my vision but my color perception, my depth perception, even my hearing because you don’t realize how much of the information you take in comes from watching people’s mouths.”
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
MLB on Friday announced a formal investigation into the scandal swirling around Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid charges that the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive theft.” The Dodgers on Wednesday fired Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s long-time interpreter and close friend, after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that the Japanese two-way star had been the victim of theft, which was reported to involve millions of dollars and link Mizuhara to a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. “Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara from the news media,” MLB