SR: 9/1/17 - 10/1/17

September 30, 2017

Saturday Selfies

Gaz Beadle

Javier Jattin

Pietro Boselli

Sam Asghari

Rexswimguy's Speedo Clad with Felipe Martins

Model: Felipe Martins

Felipe Martins, 29, is a Brazilian model. He is also the Strength and Conditioning coach of the elite swimming team and a Triathlon coach of an Olympic athlete. He was a professional swimmer for 15 years.

He has a B.S. in Physical Education from Unicamp with studies in Sports Medicine. He also has wide experience in sport management and has been responsible for leading public projects.

WEBSITE

EDUCATION
State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Physical Education

State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Sports Medicine

Several courses and certifications on sports training.

SPORT
Strength and Conditioning Coach
Elite Swimming Team - Fiat-Minas

Professional Swimmer for 15 years

Triathlon coach of an Olympic athlete

APANC's president (2008-2015)

More than $1 million approved on public projects

INTERESTS
International Model - ELO
Fashion Weeks in New York, Milan, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro

Scuba Diving
Open Water Scuba Diver - PADI

Photography

September 29, 2017

Saturday Sport: AFL Grand Final

Hundreds of thousands of excited Aussie Footy fans jammed into Melbourne Friday for the Grand Final Parade, the last celebration of Australian Rules Football before today's Grand Final Match. The root is traditional, the pageantry traditional, the arrival at the storied Melbourne Cricket Grounds, traditional. In short, fans know what they want and they get it, from the first cheers on parade morning (a public holiday in Victoria state) to the rally like finish at the MCG, perennial home of the Grand Final. Fans of the two teams in this year's Premiership Championship, the Adelaide Crows and the Richmond Tigers, were extremely excited and happy to glimpse their favorite players throughout the day. Police presence, a symptom of modern life, was indeed heavy, but there were no untoward events. Instead it was a love fest in celebration of Aussie Football. Amidst the special events of the northern Summer and southern Winter, Aussie Rules is there for us, along the the international tours of Cricket, and we thank all of you who have emailed or otherwise expressed your appreciation of this space's coverage of these exciting matches, and the parade love fests, of the AFL.

Saturday's match will be anything but a love fest. It will be time to battle. The Grand Final was first played in 1898. Adelaide has not played in the Grand Final for 19 years. The Tigers will play in their first Grand Final since 1982, and last took home the cup in 1980, not quite as long a streak as last year's champs, the Western Bulldogs, but still quite a droughth. The Tigers may not have been in a grand final recently, but their win over GWS in last week's prelim at the MCG may have shown them what they might do today! Both teams have shown no sign of finals nerves, crushing their opponents in the first two games of their finals, winning by a hefty combined average of 46 points. This year, for the first time in Grand Final history, none of the 44 players who take the field has ever been there before, in other words, not one player has ever been to a Grand Final before. A record standing since the first game in 1898 will fall today!

Richmond will likely have to hold Adelaide to less than 100 points to break its 37-year premiership drought. The Crows were undefeated in the 15 games they scored 100 or more points this year – they drew with Collingwood in round 19 – but won just three of nine games when held to less than triple figures. Richmond's challenge is formidable. The Tigers' defensive pressure has been outstanding this September and they will be banking on it carrying them to victory one more time. Whichever team wins, there will hardly be a dry eye in the MCG. The Tigers Faithfull's long wait has been well documented, while the Crows have had to overcome the tragic death of coach Phil Walsh in 2015 and quite a wait themselves.