Paraguay is quite hopeful of clinching gold medal with the help of Leryn Franco, better
known for her beauty as she was runner-up at Miss Universo Paraguay in 2006 and featured in the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
The 30-year-old javelin thrower is a brunette bombshell, who is also a face of Nike, was
ranked No. 64 on AskMen.com's Top 99 Women of 2012 and admits that her 'career is media' more than anything else.
Leryn gained significant media attention as a competitor in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Once again when she is back at Olympics, fans from around the world are bound to get behind her - if not for glaringly obvious reasons.
She said: 'To qualify for London, the Olympics, is already a medal,' she said.
Athletically, she has shown serious improvement since her attempts at Beijing, where she was placed 51st. She threw a personal-best of 55.66m during a meet held in Buenos Aires last year.
The impressive figure does not, however, give her very much hope when comparing it to the current world record, which is 72.28m, held by London's gold medal favourite Barbora Spotakova from the Czech Republic.
As a consolation prize, the stunner can bask in the fact she was included in Maxim's Sexiest Women Of The Olympics list.
She was also Yahoo's second most-searched Olympian during 2008, just behind champion swimmer Michael Phelps.
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