Jennifer Jones voted sexiest woman of 2009 World Curling Championships

Her team may have traded the status of world champions for the dreaded medal-free fourth place, but Jennifer Jones held on in a tight race against Carmen Schaefer and Eve Muirhead to be crowned the sexiest competitor in this year's women's world curling championships. (Do you think I might be in danger of over-selling this slightly?) In fourth place was the early frontrunner Marianne Rørvik, who rallied somewhat after falling back midway through the voting.

1. Jennifer Jones (Canada) 18%
2. Carmen Schaefer (Switzerland) 16%
3. Eve Muirhead (Scotland) 15%
4. Marianne Rørvik (Norway) 8%
5. Eva Lund (Sweden) 7%
6. Jackie Lockhart (Scotland) 6%
7. Melanie Robillard (Germany) 6%
8. Liudmilla Privivkova (Russia) 5%
9. Madeleine Dupont (Denmark) 4%
10. Camilla Jensen (Denmark) 3%
11. Debbie McCormick (USA) 2%
12. Ekaterina Galkina (Russia) 2%
13. Allison Pottinger (USA) 1%

183 votes were cast in total.

Another update on the curling poll - Jennifer Jones storms into lead

I know I did hopefully mutter something along the lines of 'there might be a late flurry of votes' but that was mainly just my optimistic nature. But thanks to an unexpected plug for the poll on the Curling News blog (albeit with some understandable reservations about ethics!) it's actually happened. So, several dozen votes later, Canadian skip Jennifer Jones now holds a slender lead over Switzerland's Carmen Schaefer, with Scottish skip Eve Muirhead in third. Former leader Marianne Rørvik is now trailing somewhat in fifth place.

Update on the update : China may have now claimed their historic first world women's curling title, but as promised the poll will remain open for a couple more days. As things stand Jennifer Jones and Carmen Schaefer are deadlocked for the lead, with three-time world junior champion Eve Muirhead very close behind in third place. Here are the current standings -

Carmen Schaefer (Switzerland) 16%
Jennifer Jones (Canada) 16%
Eve Muirhead (Scotland) 15%

The real battle of the Blue Peter babes

The latest edition of FHM features an article billing itself as the 'battle of Blue Peter' - ie. who is the sexiest, Zöe Salmon or Konnie Huq? There's a stunning pictorial of each contender to help you decide - the only snag is (as far as I can see) there's no such poll to vote in! I suppose the idea is you can vote for either one in the annual '100 Sexiest' poll. So anyway, I thought I'd step into the breach and offer you the chance to vote in a one-on-one, death or glory, Zöe v Konnie poll.

Curling poll update : with a few days left to vote, Norwegian skip Marianne Rørvik is leading. However, we've only had a tiny number of votes so far, so if we get a sudden flurry over the weekend things could change dramatically. Incidentally, I realise now that Russian alternate Margarita Fomina would have been an obvious contender, and I also forgot about American Nicole Joraanstad, who like her skip Debbie McCormick also posed nude for Ana Arce's Women of Curling calendar. So apologies for excluding them from the list, and any others you think should have been there!

Poll : Sexiest Woman of 2009 World Curling Championships

With the 2009 world women's curling championships now well underway in South Korea, you can vote now for your choice as the sexiest competitor. Obviously to include all sixty players (including alternates) would have been a little unwieldy, so I've taken the liberty of picking out the leading contenders - a touch subjective, of course. Many of those included in the poll have at some point posed nude for Ana Arce's now legendary Women of Curling calendar. The full list of contenders are -

Jennifer Jones (Canada)
Madeleine Dupont (Denmark)
Camilla Jensen (Denmark)
Eve Muirhead (Scotland)
Jackie Lockhart (Scotland)
Eva Lund (Sweden)
Debbie McCormick (USA)
Allison Pottinger (USA)
Marianne Rørvik (Norway)
Liudmilla Privivkova (Russia)
Melanie Robillard (Germany)
Ekaterina Galkina (Russia)
Carmen Schaefer (Switzerland)

Obviously I'm slightly going against the spirit of this blog by including a few women from North America, but as the majority are European I feel I can make an exception! The poll will remain open until a couple of days after the championships conclude. As ever, vote wisely!

Ines voted all-time sexiest Estonian singer at Eurovision

Our Estonian poll has closed, with the nation's 2000 representative Ines claiming a narrow win over the previous year's entrant Evelin Samuel. Here are the final results in full -

1 Ines 35%
2 Evelin Samuel 29%
3 Sahlene 17%
4 Gerli Padar 11%
5 Sandra Oxenryd 5%

Bear in mind that the poll covered all those female singers and girlbands who have represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest, rather than those who are Estonian citizens. Therefore Vanilla Ninja were excluded, while Swedes Sandra Oxenryd and Sahlene were both on the list.