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PHOTOS: Britain's Harry Aikines-Aryeetey is Your Sporno Fantasy

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British sprinting champion Harry Aikines-Aryeetey capitalizes on the viral success of his nude advertising campaign for Alfa Romeo with these sporno-tastic new potraits at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. The new portrait series is an obvious ode to classic (and homoerotic) male physique magazines from Team Great Britain's sponsor AVIVA.

More images AFTER THE JUMP ...

In other news: It's been a disappointing start for Harry AA and Team GB at Daegu. The former World junior sprinting champion was eliminated in the 100m semifinal heats after placing third. World 100m indoor champ Dwain Chambers was also eliminated in the semis for a false start.

Mohammed Farah became the first British athlete to medal at Daegu. Farah narrowly lost the gold in the 10,000m and took the silver.

Harry AA flexes on the track AFTER THE JUMP ...

SPORNO: Harry Aikines-Aryeetey Shows His Muscles and Hard Assets

Yassss. British sprinting champion and R20 crush object deluxe Harry Aikines-Aryeetey appears NUDE for charity in a new advertising campaign by Alfa Romeo. The new campaign raises money and awareness for Heart Research UK. 

The former World junior sprinting champion had second place in last week's 100m contest in Birmingham. The sprinter steps off the track and alongside an Alfa MiTo Sprint below. Harry AA shows his impressive back muscles and very hard assets WHEN YOU JUMP

Britain's Harry Aikines-Aryeetey Injured at Birmingham Grand Prix

Another tough break for Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, the British sprinting hotness and the former World junior sprinting champion. Harry AA could miss the European Indoor Championships after an injury at the Birmingham Grand Prix, reports the BBC.

The 22-year-old looked to have torn a hamstring when placed sixth in [the 60m] race won by American Mike Rodgers. Fellow Briton Mark Lewis-Francis pulled a groin muscle in the earlier heats. Other GB hopefuls [may] now be required at the event in France.

The British team for the European Indoor Championships in Paris on 4 March will be announced on Tuesday. It is a potentially huge blow for Aikines-Aryeetey, who had looked to have regained his form after a miserable, injury-ravaged 2010. While Rodgers stormed through to win the 60m in 6.50s ahead of former world champion Kim Collins, 34, a despondent Aikines-Aryeetey limped off the track to join Lewis-Francis in the treatment room.

Any volunteers to help with Harry's leg ... injury?

The European Indoor Championships begin in Paris on 4 March. Aikines-Aryeetey won silver and qualified for the EIC last weekend. Watch an interview and hear his sexy accent AFTER THE JUMP...

PHOTOS: Brian Mariano and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey on Track in Doha

The track and field season officially begins today with the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. And you know what that means: Generous slices of track and field beefcake and bulging muscles in track singlets.

Speaking of: The Netherlands Antilles' Brian Mariano and Team Great Britain's Harry Aikines-Aryeetey are ripped in the 60m heats. Mariano placed first in 6.66s and Harry AA took third in 6.72s. Aikines-Aryeetey took bronze at the World Athletics in Berlin and was last seen stretching ... or doing something ... with his muscles. Another image WHEN YOU JUMP ...

Britain's Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Rion Pierre Stretch and Bulge

Just in case you didn't get your USDA recommended daily allowance of track and field beefcake in Thessaloniki over the weekend, here is another helping. Outsports and Trackpic went to the European U23 Track and Field Championships held in Lithuania. The temperatures were close to 100 degrees for the annual event that featureds the top European track athletes under 23 years old.

Spotted were British 100 meters champ Rion Pierre, who looks quite fit in all the right places. Below is Rod 2.0 crush object and Team Great Britain's Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, who recently took bronze at the World Athletics in Berlin. Harry AA is stretching ... or doing ... something with his muscles.

Another image of Rion Pierre's bulging singlet and one more of this French sprinter, WHEN YOU JUMP.

Harry Aikines-Aryeetey Has a "Blond Moment"

Via London's Daily Telegraph, one of the best profiles that we've ever read of Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, the world junior sprinting champion. Harry AA—"aptly named after batteries, given his obvious hyperactivity"—says scarfing down a pizza the night before a meet is the secret to his success. He also admits to having "blond moments":

"I was with my girlfriend the other day, and as we got out of the car, I said, 'I'll race you.' She said, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'

"I said, 'Er, ah, oh yeah. I'm a sprinter.' I do have these blond moments." He smiled endearingly, possibly the first time a tough, black, 18-year-old with thighs so well-developed he has to buy jeans three sizes too big to get them over his legs, has seen himself as a blond.

Probably not the first time, but we get the idea.

AA Keeps Britain on Right Road (Daily Telegraph)

News: Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Versace, Ballroom

· Britain is wild about Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, the world's best teenage sprinter. The 17 year-old phenom just won the gold in the 100m at the World Junior Championships in Beijing

· Report: Fewer black and Latino students at New York City's top high schools.

· The First Amendment is intact. For now. The Justice Department has appealed a federal judge's ruling that struck down the administration's warantless wiretapping program as an unconstitutional infringement on the right to privacy. President Bush's response: Those who agree with the federal judge "simply do not understand the nature of the world in which we live."

· "I am Gay and This is Where I Stay," a campaign by the New York State Black Gay Network to respond differently to HIV and provide some much-needed empowerment and self-esteem.

· New York state law protects transgenders. A judge rules a black FTM transgender can move forward with a discrimination lawsuit against a five-star restaurant in Westchester County. Eric Buffong was a chef and a rising star in kitchen at Equus. After colleagues learned that he was born "Erica", Buffong says he "became a pariah in the kitchen and was swiftly fired."

· Actresses are out, supermodels are back in. Mario Testino's new, two-page Versace ads debut in Vogue and VF, starring Kate Moss and Christy Turlington.

· Oscar buzz is already surrounding Jennifer Hudson's performance in Dreamgirls—but as Best Supporting Actress. WTF? "It's surprising she's not a frontrunner for best actress considering Holliday beat her costar Sheryl Lee Ralph for the top acting honor at the Tonys, Producers plan to separate the film at the Oscars, demoting Hudson to supporting because Beyonce has more screen time. And, well, probably just because she's Beyonce. But how ironic considering that's exactly what Beyonce's character does to Hudson's in Dreamgirls." (via Midnight Lounge)

· The Southern Voice profiles Atlanta's ballroom culture which "is actually wonderful,” says Frank León Roberts, the activist and ballroom scenester.

"It has the distinction of being the only one that competes with New York City in terms of the quality and the size of the community. What makes Atlanta truly special is it’s so deeply saturated in a sense of Southerness."