00:00Dut's Olympian Alona Maher nearly bears it all in topless bikini photos.
00:05The Olympic bronze medalist is the icon we don't deserve, but absolutely need.
00:10Two-time Olympian Alona Maher kicked off her Friday by sharing a topless photo of herself
00:14on social media.
00:16The picture, which was taken during a recent Sports Illustrated swimsuit photo shoot, appeared
00:21on Maher's official Instagram account on Oct. 4.
00:24"'Here's a picture of me with my shirt off to start your Friday,' Maher, 28, wrote
00:30to caption her post.
00:31In the photo, the Dancing with the Stars contestant wore bronze-string bikini bottoms and used
00:37her wrists and hands to cover her bare chest.
00:40She also wore the bronze medal that she and the other members of the U.S. women's rugby
00:45team won during the 2020 for Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
00:50Maher held the medal between her fingers a few inches below her chin, its blue ribbon
00:54draped loosely around her neck.
00:57Maher also shared another photo of herself holding the bronze medal.
01:00Though the second photo that appeared in her Friday post showed her wearing the bikini
01:05top that matched the bottoms from the first snapshot.
01:08In the second image, Maher had her eyes closed as she held the medal beside her head and
01:13gave it a kiss.
01:14Several fans wrote in to praise the rugby player's very strong, very sexy, very cutesy
01:20post even Dancing with the Stars' official Instagram account left a comment that read,
01:24''Babe wake up, Elona just posted.''
01:27Elona woke up and decided to break the internet today, one fan observed as another declared
01:32that Maher is such an icon.
01:35One Instagram user shared that they were not expecting this to be the first thing to pop
01:39up when I open Insta before adding, ''But I am not upset.
01:43The icon we don't deserve, but absolutely need,'' another Instagram user said of Maher.
01:49Maher made her Olympics debut in Tokyo, Japan, during the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in
01:552021.
01:56She returned for her second go-around this summer and earned her first Olympic medal.
02:01After she returned home from Paris, Dancing with the Stars announced that Maher would
02:05be among its celebrity competitors for season 33, which kicked off last month.
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