An “Awkward Moment”

Reports Reuters:

American Chris Robinson overcame an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction to win the 400 metres hurdles at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, breaking the tape in 48.05 seconds.

The 24-year-old had to adjust his shorts on multiple occasions after inadvertently exposing himself and he hit the final hurdle hard before rolling into a somersault after crossing the finish line.

He lay on the track grinning after finishing with his best time of the season, one tenth of a second off his personal best.

He crossed the line six hundredths of a second ahead of Brazilian Matheus Lima at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event, while Czech Vít Müller (48.41) was third.

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• The “Sheer Magnificence” of Ricky Berens’ “Pretty Good Show”
• In the Arena | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | XI | XII
• Wrestling: “The Heterosexually Acceptable Form of Homosexual Foreplay”
• The Domain of Eros
• “Deal with It”: Joe Kort’s Message to Straight Men Who Shower with Gay Men
• Olympic Male Beauty
• Olympic Male Beauty II
• Ball[s] Sports
• Colin
• LeBron
• In the Arena, a Call for Justice

Welcoming the Summer Solstice

Related Off-site Links:
What to Know About Summer Solstice, the Longest Day of the Year – Associated Press via PBS News (June 20, 2023).

See also the previous posts:
• A Summer Blessing
• Welcoming the Summer Solstice (2020)
• Hare in Summer Field
• Summer Hare
• Summer Boy
• Boys of Summer

Image: Artist unknown.

Sometimes . . .

. . . the most productive thing to do
is to pause.

A gentle pause.

See also the previous posts:
• Always Remembr . . .
• Luminous and Safe in Vulnerability
• All the Time
• Be Silent and Listen
• Don’t Let Them Tame You
• This Fleeting Journey
• Sleep
• On Your Shore

And at The Leveret's brother site, The Wild Reed, see:
• A Sacred Pause
• Cultivating Stillness
• Today I Will Be Still

Image: Photographer unknown.

The Aesthetic Male

– Andrew Potter

– Shane Wolf

– Henry Scott Tuke

– Louis Fratino

– Unknown

– Des Haughton

– Naomichi Okutsu

– Victor Müller

See also the previous posts:
• The Aesthetic Male – November 8, 2024
• The Aesthetic Male – December 16, 2024
• Beauty
• “A Painting of a Desired, and Desiring, Subject”
• Thomas
• “Like a Classical Sculpture”
• Alireza Shojaian’s Richly Symbolic “Hamed Sinno et un de ses Frères”
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan
• Hotel Room
• Autumn Beauty

Other artists highlighted at The Leveret: Roger Payne | P.K. Benbow | Martin Bedolla | Avel de Knight | Frank-Joseph Frelier | Claudio Bravo | John Singer Sargent | Salem Beiruti | Ismael Álvarez | Stefano Junior | Alireza Shojaian | Frédéric Bazille | Saul Lyons | Barkley L. Hendricks | Alexis Vera | Mauna Nada | Ego Rodriguez | Liam Campbell | Richard Vyse | David Jester | Aaron Moth | Travis Chantar | Douglas Simonson | Guglielmo Plüschow | Vilela Valentin | Dante Cirquero | Nebojsa Zdravkovic | Brenden Sanborn | Wilhelm von Gloeden | Richard Haines | John MacConnell | Leo Rydell Jost | Jim Ferringer | Juliusz Lewandowski | Felix d'Eon | Herbert List | Joe Ziolkowski

Always Remember . . .

Art: Sam Cannon.

See also the previous posts:
• Be Silent and Listen
• Don’t Let Them Tame You

Selfie

Images: Subjects and photographers unknown.

The Beauty of the Hare

Image: Photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• The Beauty of the Hare | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX
• Golden Eyes in Golden Light
• Hare in Summer Field
• A Still Moment
• Mostly Solitary
• Unhoused
• Solitary Hare

Encounter

Image: Subjects and photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Merman – I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII
• A Merman Named Eric
• Poseidon

Running Hare in Gold

Art: Catherine Hyde.

See also the previous posts:
• An Early Leap Into Spring
• Harvest Moon
• Hare and Swallows
• White Hare Over Water
• Into the Dark Woods
• In Golden Light
• Hare in Field of Gold

River Brothers

Images: Subjects and photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Feeling Nature
• “It Is Time to Rewild”
• The Beauty of Nature
• Waterfall
• The Wouri River Divers
• Bel Homme – 6/12/17
• Bel Homme – 6/2/11

Catching Falling Stars

. . . to help us light the way
Art: Elizabeth Foster

See also the previous posts:
• Hare in Starlight
• Starlight Hare
• Tree of Stars
• All Will Be Well
• All Is Enchanted
• Lepus
• Autumn Hare
• Hares in Winter
• The Comet and the Hare
• Inspiring and Intriguing

Torso

Torso (TOR-soh): The main part of the body that contains the chest, abdomen, pelvis, and back. Most of the body's organs and the backbone are found in the torso. Also called trunk.

Images: Subjects/photographers unknown.