Aussie Olympian Jana Rawlinson, a two-time world champion, likes running fast for 400 meters at a time, sometimes with hurdles, sometimes without. She also likes having D-cups or even DDs. But she doesn't like them more than running fast. Rawlinson has just had her implants, which boosted her from a B to a D and up to a DD while she was pregnant, removed in preparation for the 2012 games in London. But she’s not done with them forever.

I absolutely loved having bigger boobs, but finally I’ve grown up enough to know myself; to be honest about who I am when I look in the mirror. I don’t want to short-change Australia either – I want to feel the most athletic I can, to know that I’m standing on the track in London [2012 Olympics] the fittest I can be.

Women track stars can get into trouble if they don’t actually look like women and running with two foreign bodies installed on your chest can’t be easy, no matter how tight those trackie singlets are. And forget the bouncing nightmare that is hurdling. But wouldn’t it be easier to, for example, to buy a padded bra? In fact, Rawlinson could probably trade a sponsorship for the Cadillac of augmenting bras (maybe an elegant push-up?) and forget this hokey-pokey implant business. We’ll even do pro bono work on a tagline for the ad campaign: “Jana Rawlinson started with pushups, and now life’s toughest hurdles are a breeze.” Or maybe: “B yourself on the track. Enjoy your Ds off the track.”