ESPN Body Issue 2016: Official Photos Revealed for Featured Athletes

You've seen the full list of athletes. Now it's time to check out their diverse bodies, as ESPN The Magazine released the full gallery for the 2016 edition of its Body Issue on Wednesday: 

The eclectic list of 19 athletes who allowed themselves to be photographed includes NBA All-Star Dwyane Wade, WNBA star Elena Delle Donne and NFL defensive tackle Vince Wilfork.

Overall, the list of seven Olympians tops any other sporting group—appropriate given how close we are to the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. There are three NFL stars (Wilfork, Antonio Brown and Von Miller) and two basketball players (Wade and Delle Donne); everyone else is representing their league or their sport on their own.

Athlete	Sport
Nathan Adrian	Swimming (Olympics)
Jake Arrieta	MLB
Antonio Brown	NFL
Emma Coburn	Steeplechase (Olympics)
Courtney Conlogue	Surfing
Elena Delle Donne	WNBA
Ryan Dungey	Motocross
Adeline Gray	Wrestling (Olympics)
Greg Louganis	Diving (Olympics)
Conor McGregor	UFC
Von Miller	NFL
Chris Mosier	Duathlon
Nzingha Prescod	Fencing (Olympics)
Christen Press	Soccer
April Ross	Beach Volleyball (Olympics)
Allysa Seely	Paratriathlete
Claressa Shields	Boxing (Olympics)
Dwyane Wade	NBA
Vince Wilfork	NFL

ESPN previously confirmed Wade as the issue's cover athlete:

Wade spoke to Morty Ain of ESPN The Magazine about overcoming his fear before posing:

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To me, doing the Body Issue is bigger than looking at an athlete's body. It's more about the story we are telling of overcoming my fear of doing this. I had a fear of being naked in front of others and a fear of being judged. So to me, overcoming that is the biggest thing. Someone may look at me and think, "Why would you have insecurity?" Well, this is real life and I'm human, and these are the things that I deal with that many others might deal with.

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Delle Donne spoke of being inside the issue with other top athletes:

The 2016 Body Issue also made history, as duathlete Chris Mosier became the first transgender athlete to pose. Mosier, who in 2015 became the first transgender athlete to qualify for a U.S. national team while competing in the gender he identifies as, told Christina Kahrl of ESPN The Magazine he has "wanted to be in the Body Issue for over a year":

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For 29 years of my life, I didn't want to be in pictures because what was reflected back to me was not the way I felt or the way I saw myself. I struggled with that for a really long time -- of not even wanting to be in photos at all. And so now, to be at a point where I not only want to be in photos but with no clothes in photos is tremendous.

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Mosier offered a snapshot of himself:

Paratriathlete Allysa Seely appears three years after undergoing an amputation below the knee of her left leg. Seely has Chiari II malformation, basilar invagination and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. She explained the disease process that led to the amputation to Ain:

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Basically, the Chiari malformation means my brain is herniated into my spinal column, so a significant amount of my cerebellum and brain stem is outside of my skull and inside my spinal column. The basilar invagination means the part that is from my skull to my spine is bent at a weird angle; it has like a kink in it. And Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a connective tissue disorder. And then the complications from those three diagnoses and the surgeries I've had led to complications that eventually led to the amputation of my left leg below my knee.

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Other athletes who appear in the pages include reigning National League Cy Young winner Jake Arrieta, the reigning Super Bowl MVP in Miller and Olympic legend Greg Louganis.