Maya Nakanishi wasn’t satisfied just with being the hottest Japanese para-athlete on the national team. She went one step further and shed all her clothes. For money.
Okay, so she was doing it to raise funds for her Paralympics and the shots are actually rather stylish. She posed for a calendar which is being sold to get her to London this summer and to buy her a new prosthetic legs (we imagine that the ones athletes use don’t come cheap).
Maya is 27 and a sprinter. She lost her leg in an accident and is said to be in with a chance of getting a medal, having finished fourth in Beijing. That’s if she can afford the plane ticket to London!
Yep, Japan doesn’t seem to like funding its female athletes and Maya’s had some serious shortages. (Look at the way the Japan national female soccer players were working in convenience stores right up to their world cup win, while the men were rolling in yen!)
We think Maya looks great in the photos and we wish her the best of her luck.
