Can’t believe Patrick hasn’t posted about the Olympic bikini cheerleaders!

As the beach volleyballers sweat it out during a training session at Beijing鈥檚 Chaoyang Park Beach, the speakers suddenly start blaring out “Mambo No. 5″ and 12 dancers saunter on to the sand, smiles fixed, shoulders shaking to the beat.
China’s cheerleading squads for the Beijing Games have been training up to eight hours a day 鈥� and they promise to dazzle crowds with flips, nunchucks, red flags and folding fans.

The only thing the beachside squad has in common with Meares’ bunch are the string bikinis.

“We’re training more than most of these guys,” said squad trainer Vanessa Diaz as the Russian men’s team loped by, waving.

“It’s exhausting, particularly in this heat and humidity.”

The Spanish troupe that performed for the beach volleyball event in Athens got the job to entertain the crowds in Beijing as well but with the proviso the cheerleading team should be half Chinese and that their routines include traditional dances from the host nation.

Via Olympic bikini babes shipped in