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The most popular female athletes on the internet in 2012

These are the women the world searched for over the past 12 months. There’s a whole lot of American Olympians in the mix.

BING RELEASED ITS top searches of 2012 and one of the categories is the “most searched female athletes.”

In 2012, people were busy searching for female Olympians, understandably so.

All of the top 20 women on the list were in the Olympics, and almost all of them took home medals for their countries.

No sign of Katie though…

No 1 - Maria Sharapova
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  • No 1 - Maria Sharapova

  • No 2 - Serena Williams

  • No 3 - Lolo Jones

  • No 4 - McKayla Maroney

  • No 5 - Hope Solo

  • No 6 - Misty May-Treanor

  • No 7 - Gabby Douglas

  • No 8 - Caroline Wozniacki

  • No 9 - Alex Morgan

  • No 10 - Venus Williams

  • No 11 - Missy Franklin

  • No 12 - Abby Wambach

  • No 13 - Daniela Hantuchova

  • No 14 - Allyson Felix

  • No 15 - Candace Parker

  • No 16 - Kerri Walsh Jennings

  • No 17 - Jessica Ennis

  • No 18 - Claressa Shields

  • No 19 - Kayla Harrison

  • No 20 - Aly Raisman

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    Nov 28th 2012, 12:22 PM

    Nearly all of them are Americans or as good as (Sharapova) so I wonder do many others use Bing as a search engine because I would think Jessica Ennis and other European athletes would feature far higher on a Google poll for example.

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    Nov 28th 2012, 12:51 PM

    Basically, the most popular female sports stars on the internet are the ones who have posed for nude photos. Who would have thought it?

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    Nov 28th 2012, 2:58 PM

    I couldn’t believe it either.

    A shocking coincidence

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    Mute Paul Ryan
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    Nov 28th 2012, 12:21 PM

    More importantly, where’s Michelle Jenneke?

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    Nov 30th 2012, 2:47 AM

    People actually use Bing?!!!!!!!

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    Nov 28th 2012, 2:45 PM

    I would have thought Victoria Pendleton would have made it too. There were much better looking women out there, and to reiterate they were practically all American.

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    Nov 28th 2012, 7:16 PM

    Where’s Ronda Rousey?

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