"The media is unwilling to show big, sweaty, female athletes."

Davis is showing fellow athletes how to endure such attacks on their seeming invincibility.

The table shows athletes with either 6 or more gold medals or ten or more total medals.

It is spending an estimated $20 million to $30 million, for example, on its warriors campaign that shows professional athletes donning masks.

Another nonsponsor, Nike, is running advertisements showing Olympic athletes to capitalize on the excitement.

Another shows male and female athletes vaulting bulls.

The movie shows athletes from many countries, living together, traveling together and competing together.

Self-important to a fault, they showed perfectly chiseled world-class athletes, buck naked - an attempt to sell Nike athletic wear.

With the tagline "It's time to play," the ads showed athletes and others playing in their Reeboks.

The Soviet cult of physical fitness is celebrated on a 1937 plate showing a woman swimmer and other athletes.