The 10 Hottest Winter Olympians Of The Past 10 Winter Games

From: The Backlot

 Strap on your curling skates, because we’re taking a hot trip down a cold memory lane: the 10 hottest men from the past 10 Winter Olympic games.

 1976

John Curry, the balletic Briton

 1976 was a magical time where if you were a male figure skater, you might find yourself dressing like Laurie Partridge in order to win a gold medal. Such was the case with John Curry. 

During the second Innsbruck games, the men’s figure skating competition was a pretty open field, but the British skater known for his balletic style and graceful extensions soundly won with a knockout performance. He’d been outed in a German tabloid before his Olympic triumph, but the media largely ignored his sexual orientation until he gave a tell-all interview in the early ’90s about his AIDS diagnosis. He died in 1994, but he left behind a legacy as the sleek, gay Mick Jagger of the ice.