We here at Sports Crunch love the Olympics. It’s great getting excited about sports that we only think of once every four years, and we wish there were more events with non-stop nearly round the clock action for two solid weeks. But what we really love are all the incredibly fit women that grace our televisions every four years. So, because it’s what we do, we decided to make a list of our favorite 50 female athletes competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Hope you enjoy, we certainly had a great time putting it together.

50. Kelly Sotherton

Country: England
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Sotherton finished fifth in the heptathlon, but may move up to 4th since silver medalist Lyudmila Blonska has tested positive for doping.
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49. Taryne Mowatt

Country: US
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Mowatt is a pitcher for the US softball team, and will be playing for gold against Australia.
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48. Lauren Jackson

Country: Australia
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Australia’s women’s basketball team has reached the semis, and will play China on Thursday.
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47. Fabiana Murer

Country: Brazil
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Murer is a Brazilian pole vaulter, and she struggled through organizer’s losing her pole in the finals, and failed to clear the minimum distance. She is planning on protesting.
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46. Sania Mirza

Country: India
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Mirza represented India in tennis, losing in the first round in singles, and the round of 16 in doubles.
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45. Margherita Granbassi

Country: Italy
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Granbassi is an Italian fencer. She won two bronze medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics, in the individual and team foil events.
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44. Brittany Dircks

Country: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Competing in the trampoline event.
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43. Caitlin Lowe

Country: USA
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Member of the US Women’s softball team, good bet to win a gold medal.
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42. Sophie Edington

Country: Australia
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Edington swims the 100m backstroke, but failed to make it out of the prelims, swimming the 13th fastest time overall in the heats.
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41. Katerina Badurova

Country: Czech Republic
How she’s fared in the 2008 Summer Olympics: Made the Czech team as a pole vaulter, but failed to get out of the prelims.
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