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While we'd like to issue a red card to all of our sequin-loving friends who stuffed the ballot boxes -- or so we suspect, since figure skaters edged out soccer players in this manliness contest -- we're just here to report the highly important statistical findings of our poll on the Hottest Athletes on Earth.

After the jump, how over ONE MILLION of you voted, the five types of guys who never fail to get you into a lather, plus the one sport nominated so many times in the comments, we made it an honorary winner.

By the way, voting is still open, so if Evan Lysacek (above) doesn't play a starring role in your fantasies, please click here -- you just might change history.

1. Figure Skaters (50 percent)
You said: "Obviously figure skaters are the hottest. Have you SEEN those asses? UNF." -- Davai

"Figure skating all the way! We've got Brian Joubert, Stéphane Lambiel, Evan Lysacek, Daisuke Takahashi, Alexei Yagudin, Johnny Weir, Evgeni Plushenko, Florent Amodio, Jeremy Abbott, Charlie White ... need I go on?" -- Darling

"All y'all who don't think figure skaters are hot must be blind. Have you SEEN their asses? Hot damn." -- CH

2. Soccer Players (44 percent)
You said: "Soccer players are definitely the hottest. Examples: Iker Casillas, Guillermo Franco, Joe Hart, Mariano Andujar, and Jonathan Bornstein. Good looking plus lots of stamina... sounds good to me. :-) " -- Sandy

"Soccer players, hands down. Google the Dutch soccer team. Yowza." -- Carrie

3. Hockey Players (2 percent)
You said: "Hockey players! Crosby, Toews, Iginla, Getzlaf, Nash . . . I could go on." -- Apple

"All the women going gaga over Twilight or Gray's Anatomy, I just don't get. I'd much rather watch Patrick Kane score the Stanley Cup winning goal. I even have a fetish for helmets of all sports :)" -- K





4. Swimmers (2 percent)
You said: Well, their fans must by shy, because you didn't. Though admittedly Ryan Lochte left us speechless, too. But 15,536 of you voted for these fine specimens.

5. Tennis Players (1 percent)
You said: Tennis players hands down....... Djokovic, Lopez, Verdasco, Gambill...... heck lots of these have underwear contracts or have done posing for Vogue Europe! -- Ian

"Hahaha awesome pointing out the Nadal ego. Still voted for tennis." -- Amber

"Rafael Nadal yummm!" -- bluflowers

6. The Write-In: Rugby Players
You said: "No rugby, eh?" wrote Brittany, before adding her own assessment.
Pros: Google/images 'rugby players' - seewhatimean?!? sweet jesus!
Cons: Not afraid to get IN another man's shit and blood. [Editor's note: This does not turn us on.]
Do-able: Nick Youngquest

"Hello, rugby?????" echoed Shona, who wrote:
Pros: Incredibly muscular, skillful, also more modest and less likely to be jerks than other sportspeople
Cons: Cauliflower ears and grabbing each other's arses in the scrum
Do-able: Daniel Carter, Richie McCaw, Richard Kahui

And ...

"NEEDS MORE RUGBY" -- e

Athlete photo credits: AFP/Getty, Getty, Getty, Getty, Getty, AP