Listen, I don't want any trouble. I don't want any of the Alison (just one 'L') Stokke nastiness, with lawyers and angry parents and journalists with dead-end careers getting pissed at me because a female teenage athlete is attractive (or because of copyright law, whatever).
I just want all you nice people to know about 18-year-old Kirsten Sweetland, a world-class triathlete who last weekend became the youngest Canadian to win a World Cup event with her victory in Richards Bay, South Africa. Congratulations, Kirsten — consider the readers of With Leather among your fans.
In a delightful turn for sports fans who like to follow athletes' activities, Kirsten has an enjoyable blog that allows you to keep track of her travels around the world and her grueling training regimen. I hope she doesn't mind that I've shared some of the photos from her blog below. I think we can all agree that she's slightly more adorable than a box full of golden retriever puppies snuggling with a litter of kittens. And I want to point out that that's not a sexual metaphor. I'm not attracted to her at all in that way. She could ask me to take her on a date to the botanical gardens, and I'd politely decline and tell her she should look for someone closer to her own age. That isn't to say things wouldn't work out for us someday down the road, but… you know what? I'll stop talking now.
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Cool euro stuff indeed.
ruh roh
I would say I’d hit it, but I’m afraid I might break her.
Picture 3 made me realize that, technically, I could have been her father. Ack.
I’m certainly not as stokked for sweetland as I would be for stokke-holm.
@289: Did Canada officially join the EU? It was only a matter of time…
Oh, I’ll be saving my money to spend a long weekend int the Sweetlands.
Based on the pictures and my rudimentary knowledge of such events, I can deduce that the triathlon included running, swimming, and pubic hair removal.
So what you’re saying is that this little girl and Greg Oden are meer months apart in age? Really?
someone beat me to a ‘sweetlands’ joke. i cant say im not surprised.
Matt’s in loooooooove. :)
You’re just standing on the track and you don’t even see the train coming do you?
Uh, that was metaphorical and directed at Matt, not innuendo directed at Sweetcheeks or whatever her name is. My lawyer wanted me to clear that up.
Those first three thumbnails make me not so horny. Dont get me wrong, she’s very cute. But she looks 12. But I wont judge anyone else that wants to do bad things to her.
I’d “tri” a few things with her.
I’m with Hardawayhatesyou. Not WITH him with him … not that there’s anything wrong with that.
How did this suddenly get all about me?
A close look at pic #4 on the blog in full-size shows some definite cameltoe forming.
I mean, what a nice picture of the winners.
Errrr, yeah.
Now that we’ve been let in on the madness that was behind the Alison thing, I can see why this was handled with kid gloves.
Kid as in young goat not y’know…
Y’know what, I’m going to stop typing now, too.
Everyone whos commentiing on this write up about Kirsten, first of all .. grow up. like seriousoly, she is a triathlete … not a model. Shedoesnt expect people to want to "do" her . So grow up, and leave her alone. You obviously have no life writing about people you dont even know. She doesnt look like shes 12, she looks very mature and she is very mature, coming from someone who ACTUALLY knows her. So do everyone a favor and grow up , get a life and stop worring about other people.