ESPN celebrates the Tenth annual Body Issue and showcase the athletic form. You MUST SEE ESPN the Body Issue 2018.
We’ve made a complete full resume of the top Athletes picked by ESPN just like Adam Rippon, Saquon Barkley, Dallas Keuchel completely bare including photos, interviews, videos and behind the scenes.
ADAM RIPPON
This Olympian isn’t afraid to show off a little skin! Adam Rippon bared his backside on one of the 10 covers for ESPN Magazine’s.
“I couldn’t have done this [shoot] while I was in the closet. I think that, with my experience of coming out, I felt so liberated in so many ways.”
The figure skater athlete did an interview for ESPN, before posing for ESPN’s Body Issue, the “Dancing With the Stars: Athletes” champ weighed in on coming out, overcoming injury and competing at the highest level.
Behind the Scenes
Photographs by Mark Seliger
Behind the scenes by Eric Lutzens
Shot in Lakewood, CA
KARL-ANTHONY TOWNS
Karl is a Dominican-American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He’s one of the most young of all athletes, he’s only 22 yo, Karl poses very natural, and he got legs for day!
“Growing up, I’d always been told that my biggest weakness was my body, and how that was probably going to hold me back from accomplishing my dreams.”
He graduated high school early to join John Calipari at Kentucky, where he played his way into the No. 1 pick in the 2015 NBA draft.
“I’m able to represent myself and my family and all the journeys and the trials and tribulations that I went through to get to this body.”
Read here the full interview.
Behind the Scenes
Photographs by Martin Schoeller
Behind the scenes by Eric Lutzens
Shot in Los Angeles, CA
SAQUON BARKLEY
Saquon Barkley is an American football running back for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL).
The 21 year old athlete totaled 5,557 all-purpose yards in his three-year collegiate career.
“My favorite part is max-out days because everything just comes together, you know?”
Behind the scenes
You can read and see full interview here.
Photographs by Sophy Holland
Behind the scenes by Eric Lutzens
Shot in Los Angeles, CA
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC
Zlatan Ibrahimović is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for LA Galaxy. He also played 116 times for the Sweden national team in a 15-year international career.
“To be creative [on the field], I need to be angry. I need to be very angry. … I find the haters and make that give me energy.” He said on ESPN The Body Issue 10.
What part of your body do you feel the most confident in, as far as your strength? The whole package. There is no weakness.
Read the full interview. Here.
Photographs by Peter Hapak
Behind the scenes by AAron Ontiveroz
Shot in Los Angeles, CA
DALLAS KEUCHEL
Dallas Keuchel is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is a left-handed starting pitcher.
He previously attended the University of Arkansas, where he played baseball for the Arkansas Razorbacks.
“This offseason, I gained 15 to 18 pounds, and I honestly feel like I’m a rookie now, my body feels that good … As a baseball player, if I’m pitching 35 times a season, seven innings a pop, 100 pitches a game, I need some fat, I need some extra meat on my body.”
Behind the scenes
You can see the full interview here.
Photographs by Kurt Iswarienko
Behind the scenes by Eric Lutzens
Shot in Austin, TX
GREG NORMAN
Cause ESPN does not discriminate any kind of human being, this is an oldest guy, but young at heart:
Greg Norman is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world’s Number 1 Official World Golf Rankings ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s.
Norman: ‘I walk around naked at home’
At age 63, you’ll find him hiking in Kyrgyzstan, exploring sinkholes in the Yucatan or planning to scuba dive beneath the Antarctic ice sheets. Norman slowed down long enough for the Body Issue.
Continue reading here.
Behind the scenes.
Photographs by Kwaku Alston
Behind the scenes by Eric Lutzens
Shot in Hobe Sound, FL
YASIEL PUIG
Way back in 2013, when Yasiel Puig made his debut for the Dodgers, the right fielder seemed destined to be one of the biggest personalities in baseball.
Five years (and one Body Issue photo shoot) later, the charismatic Cuban star has not disappointed.
Puig carved out some time during his season to talk with Nación ESPN reporter Pilar Perez about body love, his weakness for croquetas, and slamming into all those outfield walls.
“I can’t worry about the things people around me say. I have always been free and transparent. Don’t pay attention to the critics or the people who are outside the field of play.”
Continue reading here.
Behind the scenes
Puig: ‘Sometimes I think I come from Mars’
via ESPN.com
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