Greg Rutherford gets a gold medal for stripping naked

Olympic champion long jumper Greg Rutherford has already done Attitude’s Naked Issue – and now he’s kindly removed his clothes for our friends at Cosmopolitan.

Greg posed for the May issue of Cosmopolitan to raise awareness of male cancer for Cancer Research UK – and told the magazine: “Doing this shoot for Cancer Research UK was important to me: a friend got testicular cancer and had chemo. He’s recovered now. Checking yourself can be the difference between life and death.”

He also admitted he’s not always been as body-confident as his fans may presume. “Being told I’m sexy is something I find funny – as a ginger guy, you get a fair bit of stick growing up,” he said.

“It’s flattering, though. I’m in a lucky position where I get to train every day for a living – but I still have my body hang-ups. I didn’t take my top off for years in training because I thought other athletes were in better shape.”

The full hi-res image of Greg is available to ogle in the May issue of Cosmopolitan (see right), which you can pick up digitally on Apple Newsstand​.

Oh, and you can find further exclusive Greg-related content here.

Thank you Cosmopolitan and thank you Greg Rutherford, MBE.

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