Australians develop dangerous distraction for 2012 Olympics

Good morning! Meet Melanie Adams, a Miss Teen Australia finalist and prospective Miss Universe, who also happens to be rather good at pole vaulting:

She’s Australian, therefore born to sweat, and she’s been vaulting since the age of 11. She has her sights set on the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and indeed on the 2012 London Olympics, and she looks up to the aboriginal Aussie Cathy Freeman and Tatiana Grigorieva, the Russian-Australian pole vaulter who won gold at the Commonwealth Games of 2002.

Terrific. But ‘born to sweat’? What sort of gibberish is that? More pics after the jump.