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Ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympics, the gold medal favorite in alpine skiing, Lindsey Vonn, hit the slopes with the reporter Bill Pennington from the New York Times. She spoke about crashing, recovery and being the fastest woman on the mountain.
Lindsey Vonn is not only hot, she is a skiing athletic beast!!! What a champion. A couple days ago she revealed to the world press that is currently injured from a bad training fall a couple weeks ago, but I think she will "shake it off" and win at least one gold medal for the U.S Ski Team at the Vancouver Winter Olympic 2010 Games.
Lindsey Vonn becomes the first American woman ever to win two overall world cup crowns after capturing her eighth downhill race of the season and second downhill title in Are, Sweden in March 2009. Lindsey Vonn is the greatest female ski racers United States has ever produced. She is currently the best woman skier in the world!
Go Lindsey! Go U.S. Men's and Women's Olympic Ski Racing Team at the Vancouver Winter Olympic 2010 Games!!!
Here is the sexy Sports Illustrated video of hot 25 year old American ski racer Lindsey Vonn. Lindsey Vonn is not only a pretty face but she is also a champion. Vonn is in fact the 2008 and current 2009 Overall World Cup Ski Racing Champion - the best female skier in the world! She is like the Michael Phelps of ski racing but a lot better looking and she actually has a personality (Phelps doesn't). Baring any last minute injuries, Vonn is favorite to win 3 gold medals at the Vancouver Winter Olympic 2010 Games in British Colombia, Canada. She is overwhelming favorite to win the Women's Downhill - "Queen of the Mountain".
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Here is part 2 in Castelliano (Castillian Spanish) of this impressive video called "El Pisco Patrimonio Cultural Del Peru - Parte 2" (Peru's Pisco Cultural Heritage).
There is a short interview with restaurateur, Peruvian media mogul, publisher, hotelier, and #1 Latin American celebrity chef Gaston Acurio in Lima, Peru. Gaston is the owner of the five star Astrid y Gaston, La Mar Cebicheria Peruana, Tanta, and other top Peruvian brand restaurants. He currently owns 40+ upscale Peruvian restaurants around the world. He also owns the Mistura Peruvian Cuisine Expo, the largest cuisine expo in all Latin America.
Also in the video is Pedro Schiaffino, one of Peru's top young chefs and the owner ofMalabar in San Isidro, Peru. According to this month's Food & Wine Magazine here in the United States, Malabar is the 4th best lounge & bar in the world!
According to Food & Wine Magazine - "the Peruvian Pisco Sour is the most elegant of Latin American drinks. Far superior and more refined than the Cuban Mojito, the Brazilian Caipirinha, and the Californian Margarita. Pisco Sour made with Pisco Peruano and the Limon Peruano, the best lime in the world, has no rival."
The one and only "Coca Sour Peruano" - the mind boggling & sheer ecstasy inducing drink from the ancient Incas the Peruvian Coca Sour made of coca leaves (the raw leaves that is used to make cocaine)!!! This is pure coca leaves not extract or coca infused Pisco.
Picture of the truly unique "Coca Pisco Peruano" at an upscale restaurant in Miraflores, Peru. This drink is illegal in the Unites States and in most countries around the world. But in San Francisco I know a top Peruvian restaurant that serves a Coca infused Pisco Sour! It is much diluted, so it not the same thing. But it is the closes thing you can get to being in Peru.
Just released yesterday Friday, Feb 5, 2010 in Castellano (Castillian Spanish) by Peru's government cultural and tourism bureau is this magnificent video called "El Pisco Patrimonio Cultural Del Peru - Parte 1" (Peru's Pisco Cultural Heritage- Part 1).
An impressive display of 30+ different types of Peruvian Piscos at a 5 star lounge in San Isidro (outside of Lima), Peru!
Desfilaron las mejores modelos de bikini del Peru en el evento organizado por Nino Peñaloza en el gigantesco Plaza de Armas de Lima llamado "Lima Esta De Moda 2009".
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Peru showcasted their best bikini models in a huge event organized by Nino Peñaloza at the gigantic Plaza de Armas in Lima called "Lima Is In Fashion 2009".
Picture of Peruvian bikini & lingerie models Claudia, Delly, Maricris, Osiris (in the back), and Tilsa (up front) at this fashion show in late November 2009.
Former Miss Reef Peru 2007, Miss Reef International 2008, Miss Hawaiian Tropics Peru 2006, Miss Hawaiian Tropics International 2007, Miss Playboy Peru 2007, & Miss Playboy Latin America & Iberia (Spain & Portugal) 2008 champion from Lima, Peru - Tilsa
Tilsa
Amazon beauty from Iquitos, Peru - Claudia
Claudia
A few pictures of Maricris from Lima, former Miss Hawaiian Tropics Peru 2008
Machu Picchu (Old Peak) is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,430 metres (8,000 ft) above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 kilometres northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows. Often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas", Machu Picchu is one of the most familiar symbols of the Inca Empire.
The llama's are the only residents left in Machu Picchu (the lost city).
With the much anticipated 2010 Winter Olympics in British Colombia, Canada just a few weeks away. The eternal question pops up again but with a twist in last month's DVD release of docu-drama classic Downhill Racer. The film asks those of us with some talent and ability - "How fast must a man go to get from where he's at?"
The 1969 sports classic movie "Downhill Racer" starting a very young Robert Redfordtries to answer this pondering question that all of us with a crumb of talent and ability ask ourselves everyday. How much ambition to you have in you to take your talent and ability to the next level? Can you take it to the highest level in your chosen field or career? At what cost?
What if you get to the top and you find out you never really left from where you started?
What gets me about this classic sports/love movie is that Gene Hackman has hair!!!
According to Hollywood critics, Downhill Racer is the best sports movie ever produced with some of the most spectacular ski scenes ever filmed. It is not really a sports movie par se (Olympic downhill ski racing is just the setting), but more of a romantic drama told in documentary style in exotic ski locations like the Lauberhorn at Wengen, Switzerland and the Hahnenkamm at Kitzbuhel, Austria. Also included were Megeve, France and St. Anton, Austria.
25 year old former Swedish glamour beauty and actress of the 60's Camilla Sparv in 1965.
Here is what Image Entertainment wrote about the movie:
"Astonishing Alpine location photography and a young Robert Redford in one of his earliest starring roles are just two of the visual splendors of Michael Ritchie's visceral debut feature, DOWNHILL RACER. In a beautifully understated performance, Redford is David Chappellet, a ruthlessly ambitious skier competing with an underdog American team in Europe for Olympic gold, and Gene Hackman provides tough support as the coach who tries to temper the upstart's narcissistic drive for glory. With a subtle screenplay by acclaimed novelist James Salter, DOWNHILL RACER is a vivid character portrait buoyed by breathtakingly fast and furious imagery that brings the viewer directly into the mind of the competitor."
Very Short List wrote last month of the new DVD release of Downhill Racer:
"Just weeks after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
made Robert Redford into a megastar in 1969, the actor turned up in a
very different kind of picture—a documentary-style movie about a
fearless skier with an all-consuming desire for Olympic gold. Downhill Racer
(available from Criterion 11/17) shows Redford at his early best:
outrageously charming, naturally physical and unrelentingly sexy.
Much of Downhill Racer—which was directed by Michael Ritchie, who reteamed with Redford in 1972 for The Candidate—is
a sort of thrill ride: Cameras mounted to actual skiers provided
bird’s-eye footage of what it’s like to careen down slopes at what
looks like a million miles an hour. Sure, there’s a love interest, and
a rival or two, but the film focuses mostly on the development of one
great undisciplined athlete into a bona fide star. Plus, Redford’s
coach is played by a young Gene Hackman, who gives us a peek at the guy
we love so much in Hoosiers."
32 year old Robert Redford on location in the Swiss Alps for Downhill Racer in 1969.
A young 40 year old Gene Hackman with hair - Un joven de 40 años Gene Hackman con pelo!
REMEMBER THE LITTLE FINGERS, for they adore the wonders of nature. If this doesn't remind you of a little kid, then you've never been around little kids. It's a perfect test to determine that.
