Who doesn want Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone?
U.S. gymnast Alicia Sacramone at last night’s Olympic competition. (Photo credit: US Presswire) The eldest U.S. Olympic gymnast, Alicia Sacramone, may have taken most of the blame for Tuesday night’s loss to China after two notable screw-ups. Yet Sacramone has gained a legion of new fans, apparently not for her athletic talents but for her looks. Call it the Anna Kournikova effect. The flexible athlete spent much of Tuesday’s NBC broadcast in the spotlight, though not for the proudest reasons, and viewers took notice. Immediately after the women’s gymnastics competition, the phrase “Alicia Sacramone is hot” shot to No. 1 on Google’s hot trends list. Hordes of web surfers scoured the depths of Google for information on and photos of the athlete. (Psst! Right over here.) Facebook groups sprang up overnight for fans ogling the Olympian. One was created Wednesday morning around 10 a.m. and has already netted 400 members. Group creator Tyler Herrick, a student at the University of Maryland,
