Leryn Franco from Paraguay is a Javelin thrower. Leryn is not medalist from Beijing, but she’s still one of the most beautiful olympic girls. KING Magazine named her “The Hottest Olympian”.
Leryn Franco is just your run-of-the-mill javelin thrower/pageant queen/model with her own calendar.
But during the Beijing Olympics the 26-year old Paraguayan became so much more to the American people;
she became our javelin thrower/pageant queen/model with her own calendar.
It is no secret that Vanessa Minnillo wants to become an actress. She was very verbal about the fact that she wanted to make the transition into acting. She got her first chance when she appeared in Fantastic Fourflick, 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and she loved it!. Now she was working at ET and MTV.
"When I was on the set of Fantastic Four, I loved it. I respected everyone's work ethic. It was like a mini-family, and I want to continue doing it, whether it's action or comedy or action-comedy. I can pull off physical comedy; I'm athletic enough not to get hurt easily," Minnillo tells Vegas Magazine.
"I got to do MTV for four years, ET for two years, then left to put my heart into other things for a while. I just love new experiences. I was an air-force brat that attended eight different schools in my first nine years of school, so I feel I can adjust to anything," she adds. "Acting is a different way to entertain people. Most people know how to be themselves in front of the camera, but interpreting a character takes a lot. Once I get the right role, I'll just feel it."
Minnillo is not taking any opportunity she gets though. She says that she's gotten offered some silly roles and she's passed cause she feels it's not right for her. "We've had some offers that we turned down because it wasn't me," she exclaims. "For one of them, I had to be this bikini terrorist and in another I was some crazy girl at Mardi Gras doing anything for beads!"
"Acting is something new for me, and you have to master this craft. It's not just something you jump into. That's why I took time off to be with my family--reap the fruits of my own labor," she explains. "I've worked two jobs all these years straight and I never got to stop and enjoy it."
There you have it folks! Expect to see Vanessa on the big screen some time soon. I wonder if her acting career will take off further than Jessica Simpson's has.
Maria Sharapova maintained her perfect start to the season at the Qatar Open on Wednesday.
After winning the Australian Open last month, the fourth-seeded Sharapova defeated fellow Russian Galina Voskoboeva, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, in the second round of the $2.5 million event.
Including her title at Melbourne and two Fed Cup wins in Russia's first-round tie with Israel earlier this month, Sharapova has now won all her 10 matches this season.
Runner-up to Sharapova at the Aussie open, top-seeded Ana Ivanovic also returned to action on Wednesday with a routine 6-3, 6-1 win over Olga Govortsova in one of 14 second-round matches. Her third round foe will be No. 16 Agnieszka Radwanska, who saw off Tathiana Garbin, 6-3, 6-3.Second seed Svetlana Kuznetsova opened with a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Nathalie Dechy of France.
The Russian, who was beaten in the final of this tournament last year by Justine Henin, will face No. 15 Sybille Bammer in the next round, after Bammer's 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 win over Monica Niculescu.
Wednesday saw the first major upset of the tournament as No. 5 Anna Chakvetadze was sent home by Na Li, who battled to a 7-6 (9-7), 6-4 victory.
It also was tough day for ninth-seeded Patty Schnyder, who went down, 6-3, 6-4, to Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia.
Others advancing were 11th-seeded Dinara Safina, No. 12 Shahar Peer, Anabel Medina Garrigues and Ai Sugiyama.
The world No. 5 awaits the winner of No. 14 Amelie Mauresmo and Tamarine Tanasugarn.
