Female Athlete Babes: Mohini Bhardwaj USA Gymnastics Hottest Babe

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Image Hosted by ImageShack.us I only watch gymnastics during the olympics, and if you're like me, one gymnastic hottie you want to keep your eye on is Mohini Bhardwaj. She's on Team USA and she is multi-ethnic, so half-Indian and half-Russian.

She is very hot, that's for sure. The fact that she is a gymnast is even sexier. Imagine all those Kuma-sutra sex positions you could have with her. Just fantastic.

This is what it says on Mohini's wikipedia page:

Bhardwaj (known to her teammates as "Mo") began taking gymnastics at the early age of four. Training in Cincinnati, Ohio she quickly climbed up the amateur ranks, and by 1993 her coaches had confidence she could make the Olympic team. She made her first US National Team in 1992. While too young to compete in the 1992 Olympics, she entered the senior ranks in 1993 and racked up an impressive number of medals in other international competitions.

Determined to make her dreams come true, she moved to Orlando, Florida and started training under Alexander Alexandrov, a former coach of the Soviet gymnastics team. After training for three years in Orlando, Bhardwaj went with Alexander to Houston, Texas without her parents.

At 17, living alone in a Texas apartment, Mohini began to struggle. Her gymnastics suffered from long nights and partying. At the 1996 Olympic trials she finished a disappointing tenth. At the 1997 Nationals, NBC commentators noted that Bhardwaj was only competing due to her parents' insistence. In spite of her seeming indifferent, Bhardwaj had a strong showing at these Nationals, finishing third in the all-around and easily earning a spot on the American World Championships team.

Although her reputation as a wild child scared off some NCAA recruiters, Bhardwaj was awarded a full gymnastics scholarship to UCLA. Although her partying continued, UCLA head coach Val Kondos kept her on the team. Kondos' faith paid off: by 1999, Bhardwaj had changed her ways. She was a key member of the Bruins, earning All-American honors eleven times and winning the NCAA Nationals. Her gymnastics flourished in the college environment. Her difficulty on all events increased, and she developed a new artistic style on floor exercise. However, it was during her senior year at UCLA when Bhardwaj really stepped up her game, scoring several perfect 10s and sending notice that she was a viable contender for a top spot on the elite scene.

After ending her UCLA career with a new perspective and work ethic, Bhardwaj returned to elite competition. She made the US National Team with a third-place all-around showing at the 2001 National Championships, where she also won vault and placed second on the balance beam. She followed up her success at Nationals with a strong performance at the 2001 World Championships in Ghent, Belgium, contributing to the American team's bronze medal, placing 18th in the all-around and 7th in the vault event finals.

The next year, however, Bhardwaj suffered a dislocated elbow, an injury so serious that it kept her out of action until 2004. Off the national team and running low on training funds, Bhardwaj found herself taking odd jobs to pay for her gymnastics. Determined to make her Olympic dream come true, Bhardwaj found herself working out seven hours a day followed by waitressing at nights. A generous $20,000 grant from former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson enabled her concentrate on her training without financial worries.

At the 2004 Nationals, Bhardwaj placed a disappointing 12th in the all-around, snagging the final spot in the Olympic Trials. However, a sixth-place finish at the Trials, combined with her impressive vaulting, difficult skills and consistent routines on all other events earned her a spot on the US Olympic Team.

In Athens, Bhardwaj was an important contributor to the American team's silver medal finish, the team's best ever finish outside the US. She competed all four events in preliminary competition, earning an all-around placement (8th) that would have advanced her to the AA finals if not for the FIG rule limiting AA competitors to two-per-country. Carly Patterson and Courtney Kupets advanced instead. In the team finals, Bhardwaj was used on three events, turning in solid performances. Her balance beam performance was particularly noteworthy: though probably her worst event in gymnastics, Mohini was informed after warmups concluded that she would have to perform on the event due to her teammate's injury. Not expecting to compete beam in finals, and without even having warmed up, Bhardwaj delivered to her capacity. Anything other than a strong performance would have probably seen the US relegated to bronze, but she did a clean routine and managed to keep the US ahead of a resurgent Russian team.

As team captain, Bhardwaj also served as a stabilizing factor for the younger members of the team, taking them aside and comforting them when they made errors. Bhardwaj's final performance in the Olympics was the floor exercise event final, where she placed sixth. She appealed her score at first but after the use of a video replay the original start value and score were both upheld. Bhardwaj's father still claimed afterwards that she ought to have been awarded bronze. This happened on the same evening as the notorious high bar debacle, when the crowd, sick of perceived bad judging, booed for twenty minutes following a low score for Alexei Nemov.

Mohini suffered from the same problem as Cheng Fei, whose score was also unpopular- she showed difficult tumbling and great artistry, but lost marks because of failure to complete the controversial 'dance bonus' section which is usually complicate jumps and turns in combination. This is a requirement that is not entirely popular with fans. Mohini herself is on record as stating a dislike for the dance bonus and jumps.

Mohini joined the other members of the Olympic team on a national tour after Athens, and unlike the other five she did attempt to continue into 2005. She attended training camps and was originally selected for the American Cup in January 2005, but had insufficient training time to be ready and withdrew. She eventually retired from competitive gymnastics later in 2005, at the age of 26, and in 2006 will finally finish her degree at UCLA. She recently got married to Jeff Barry.