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THE 'DRAG OLYMPICS' CONTESTS

This years event will be on Saturday May 10th 2008

 


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DRAG OLYMPICS CONTEST 2005

 

On Saturday 9th April The WayOut Club presented The 2005 Drag Olympics (for the 10th year)

The contest (filmed this year for a Belgium television programe - amongst other media)
is a fun event presented with tounge firmly in cheek by WayOut host Vicky Lee.

The contestants limber up with a round of under the limbo and over the high jump,
"ANY WAY THEY WANT - with extra brownie points for entertainment value"
says Vicky Lee.

The main event where the drag athletes compete againt the clock is the drag obstacle course.
I asked Vicky Lee "What is a drag obstacle course" she told me

"We go through hoops to get a booking, we do challenging quick changes, we run round obstacles to get to the stage, the dj always plays the wrong music and there are more obstacles including fans and boyfriends before wrestling the manager for our wages - oh life's a drag but we love it"
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Just to compicate things compeditors have to carry a giant egg and spoon around the drag olympic course.
I asked Vicky Lee why

"The fact is you have to have golden balls to get a booking on the drag circuit these days...
without experience how do get a booking? (chicken or egg!)".


The WayOut Club offers 'Star Search' on the 3rd Saturday of EVERY month - an open stage to anyone to try out
thier performance The audiance chooses who takes away £150 and many of the best go on to perform in WayOut shows

 

 

Natasha (picture jumping over rope) from Russia won nothing in third place.

Dezzy from England (with egg and spoon) won a pint of best bitter in second place

Miss Gloria Euphoria (picture in red dress) from Belgium was an outstanding winner winning £200 cash as Vicky Lee said
"Spend it on an outfit dear - god knows you need it :)"
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This event was filmed by Reuters and is available for inclusion in YOUR television productions.
Hi res publishable picture available
The WayOut Club celebrates its 12th year on Saturday 16th
The club is EVERY satuday 9pm to 4am 9 Crosswall (off Minories) London EC3

The Drag Olympics night is always a busy night at The WayOut Club and gets a lot of media interest but you do NOT have to book ahead.

 

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MAGAZINE REVIEWS OF THE DRAG OLYMPICS CONTESTS

The Mirror Newspapers Supplement Magazine 'M' - Review on the Drag Olympics
(Saturday 10th May 2003 issue)

GOOD SPORTS

 

Ooh, we love a bit of glamour here at the Mirror, so we made Jane Brum dig out her stillies an join the best-dressed sporting event. But is she woman enough to survive it?

It's murder on the dance floor at the WayOut Club in the City of London. DJ Titch is winding up his crowd with a high-energy version of Like A Virgin. It's wall-to-wall gold sequins, diamante and leopard print, and if you're not here to see and be seen, you'd better retire to the bar with your handbag. There are screams as someone in 12inch heels does a Naomi Campbell and lands spreadeagled on her back. It's 1am and we are only an hour away from the 2003 Drag Queen Olympics. The WayOut is a cosy basement club with a small dance floor and a friendly clientele who range in age from 19 to 90. The contestants, like all true athletes, are preparing themselves for the gruelling trial ahead. All nine of them are cutting a rug in front of the crowds, hoping to whip up their fans and attract the eyes of the judges. With instant fame and £150 in prize money at stake, the competition is fierce.

Vicky Lee has been running the WayOut Club since 1993 has been the Olympics organiser for the past four years. A transvestite forever, she is demurely clad in a floaty black number tonight, with flawless make-up and hair. '


Compere Steffan
does some essential adjustments

This club is a very special place,' Vicky Lee says. 'Everyone is welcome here - trannies, transsexuals, gay or straight. Lots of trannies bring their partners, it might be the only place they can be themselves. The Olympics are just an excuse to have a party. There are no rules, we allow transvestites and transexuals to enter, so whether they've had surgery or not they can compete. They do have to be wearing heels though, so the obstacle course is a real challenge.' The competition is divided into three sections - limbo dancing, the trannie high jump and the assault course, so each queen gets their chance to shine. 'I have a theory that when a drag queen goes to perform somewhere, she has certain hazards to face,' explains Vicky. 'We get the worst changing rooms - usually a toilet - we have to navigate beer crates on our way to the stage, step over puddles, squeeze past fans, do our bit for the audience and all this while looking a million dollars. We've based the assault course around that, so it's a true drag queen challenge. These girls are athletes!

Backstage in the changing room the ladies are nervously gathering for a bit of last-minute lippie application, re-glueing false eyelashes, checking their socks are still in their bras and their meat and two veg are securely tucked away. Less is definitely more when it comes to Olympic drag dress codes - a lot less. There's no way I could get away with their strappy tops and tiny skirts that leave acres of leg on show, let alone the teetering 12inch stilettos, but then I remind myself why the queens look so good - men don't get cellulite. Goddamn them.


Oops, she's lost her egg......
Debbie, from Manchester, and Kate, from York (in case you're wondering, the queens won't reveal their 'man' - hush, don't say that word - names), are still in two minds about entering. 'If the press are here, maybe I should phone my wife and tell her I'm a trannie first,' wonders Debbie, who stands 6ft 5in in her heels and blonde curly wig, as I gasp at the revelation. She starts fumbling in her copious clutch bag for her mobile, but then she and Kate dissolve into burly laughter and I know I've been had. There is no Mrs Debbie, phew. They've never entered before and they're both very nervous.
The favourite to win this year is a vision of Brazilian beauty called Miss Priscilla. She is living proof that although money can't buy you love, it can buy you the best pair of surgically enhanced boobie-dos in South America. Priscilla is the Elle Macpherson of the drag world, complete with the sleekest of bronzed thighs and flowing brunette locks. Next to her I feel like Bob the Builder. floor. The Body is just about dressed in a gorgeous filmy number, slashed right up to a G-string the size of a tea bag. This girl knows how good she looks, she doesn't stop posing, flouncing or pouting for a moment, whether she's backstage or on the dance floor, casting the odd sneering glance at her stilettoed rivals. The competition is about to start when contestant no 3, the only lady here under 6ft, sidles up to me.

Ooh, such a Lady ! .....
Laura is understated in a red velour top and black leather miniskirt, both bought from Debenhams, one of the most TV-friendly high-street stores, apparently. 'You'd never guess it,' Laura giggles, patting her glitter-sprinkled black wig with a hand of gammon steak proportions, 'but the rest of the week I'm a panel beater for London taxis. Everyone I work with knows about me dressing up, they all think it's hilarious. To be honest, I'm not confident about my chances tonight, I feel like a stock car in a Formula 1 race.' I remind her she has size on her side with the limbo competition, but silently agree with her - she's not butch, but there's a touch of Les Dawson about her stockinged thighs.
Compere Steffan, a supremely glamorous blonde in sequinned leopard spots, quietens the crowd. The limbo competition will sort the men from the boys, or the girls from the queens... or something. It quickly becomes clear that heels and skirts and limbo-dancing are a combo fatal to a queen's dignity. Legs akimbo, skirts up around their armpits, the ladies are gamely trying to wiggle under the pole, only to collapse in a gusset-revealing heap on the floor.

Oh It Looks So Easy ! .....
Miss Jiggly Puff, an elegant middle-aged lady and the only trousered contestant, makes the best job of things. It's the trannie high jump next, and Vicky announces bonus points will be awarded for the most inventive way of clearing the knotted together elastic bands. Let's face it, a statement like that is a sequinned, diamante- edged, red rag to a drag queen.
Debbie ups the ante with a Mission Impossible-style somersault, from which she saunters away, wig and earrings intact. The Body knows she has to pull it out of the handbag now. True Drag Olympic sportswoman that she is, she takes a measured run up to the jump and leaps into the air. Unfortunately she gets her dress caught on an umpire's Pat Butcher-style earring mid-jump and the elastic bands, aka the pole, get caught between her legs. She makes the most of the situation and slides up and down the bands while tipping the crowd a saucy wink.
My heart goes out to Laura who attempts a crazily ambitious scissor jump which wins her cheers but little dignity. As the high jump gets higher and the audience get rowdier, the queens become more bold.

Contestants & Hostess
The assault course has to be completed in the fastest time, with the added impediment of having to carry a huge green egg on a spoon. No one seems to know why, but then again, no one seems to know why not. Each queen starts on a podium, which they must dismount with the decency of a convent girl, then they must snog a bemused-looking, but game, man for ten seconds, pick their way through a beer crate minefield, mount another podium and mime to whatever pop tune comes belting out of the speakers. Then there are two hoops to be stepped through elegantly and a further podium to mount. Remember that throughout all of this, they have to carry the egg and spoon, keep their wigs and falsies in place and smile at the judges.
Miss Minnie, the saucy young Irish entrant with a brunette wig and heavy black eyeliner, sets an excellent time of 45 seconds. She shimmies through the beer crates in her knicker-hugging Chinese silk dress, mimes to Dancing Queen and keeps her egg in place for the whole course.
Kate, a good-looking, broad-shouldered brunette in a strappy cocktail dress, won't leave the volunteer snogger alone. When she climbs off his lap, his eyes are crossed and lip gloss is smeared all over his mouth. The crowd are totally hyped now, egging on their favourites. My money's on Miss Minnie.

Priscilla floats effortlessly through, a glitzy stick insect with the elegance and ego of a supermodel. It's all over in 45 minutes and, to the bated breath of the entire club, time- keeper Pandora De'Pledge declares Priscilla the winner. I can't help feeling glamour has won out over talent, since Priscilla didn't actually come first in any of the events, but the crowd seem happy. There's no crown or medal or even a podium, but Priscilla can't restrain the urge to mime along to Whitney's One Moment In Time (well, who could?) when her fans stream forward to carry her aloft.

"I'm really happy... I love all the attention. But now I must dance"
The 2003 Olympian queen, Miss Priscilla

I catch the Olympian queen backstage for a few seconds, where she is yet again retouching her already perfect make-up. 'I'm really happy,' she says, in her breathless Brazilian accent, 'but I did expect to win. I've been on the front cover of Utterly Fabulous (the WayOut's magazine) and done lots of photo shoots. There's been a lot of interest in me and I love all the attention. But now I must dance.' She rearranges her dress and her pout and oozes back out to the adoring crowds.
Vicky Lee is backstage looking as fresh as a daisy, even though it's 3am.
She's happy with how the evening has gone and is ready to party until the club closes at 5am.

Meanwhile Laura is collecting her handbag and looking a bit downcast at her performance. I tell her I enjoyed the show and she gives me a quick once-over. 'You know,' she says, tapping my arm, 'if you made yourself look a bit more glam, there's no reason why you shouldn't enter next year.' Now, I know I'm quite tall for a woman, and I do have broad shoulders and a strong jaw, but this is the first time I've ever been mistaken for a drag queen in the making, and it doesn't do a lot for my ego. I just smile and tell Laura I'm sticking with the day job - high jump never was my forte.

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"DRAG OLYMPICS INSPIRES
RICHARD O'BRIEN"


This contest inspired the High Heels @ High Noon charity drag race
presented by Richard O'Brien in Manchester on 28th Sep 2002
The days events raised £35,000 for Manchester Childrens hospitals
Click here for pictures and details of that event

 

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PAST DRAG OLYMPICS CONTESTS

 

Contestant - Myuri Contestant - Sarah Contestant - Jenny

 

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THE JUDGES DECIDE...

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DRAG OLYMPICS CONTEST 2003

 


WINNER 2003

 

For the 5th year the Drag Olympics winner
was Michelle. One of our youngest and obviously the most flexible of our
regular club members

 

 

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DRAG OLYMPICS CONTEST 2002


WINNER 2002

 

For the fourth year we held our Drag Olympics on 8th May 2002. The winner was the athletic Miss Kit Kat taking the £150 with a clear winning 22seconds around the obstacle course. Kitty had Miss Merlissa close on her heels at just 23 seconds but with 2 points lost in the preliminary limbo and high jump (warm up) rounds Merlissa fell into second place. Jordan, Francine, Julia, Michelle and Chrissy were all excellent competitors who really went for it in every round.

Thanks go to DJ Titch for the music that stirred the competition along and Alison and Rachael (on her very first night out), for keeping the props in place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DRAG OLYMPICS CONTEST 2001

 

The Wnner - Myuri
WINNER 2001

 

For the third year we held our Drag Olympics on
7th May 2001

 

THE WINNER
This years winner was Myuri
followed closely by Jade and Jodie (from The Boudoir).

Other competitors were
Sarah, Ricki and Jenn

 

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