For the past couple of weeks, ESPN and athletes featured in the Magazine's 'Body Issue' released some pictures from their shoots ahead of the release of the issue.

 

 

Joe Thornton and Brent Burns are on ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue cover. ••• (Via @espn)

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While the newsstand release of ESPN Magazine's The Body Issue is on Friday, ESPN released the photos of all 23 athletes featured in the issue on their website on Wednesday.

This year, there are a ton of big names that decided to pose for the magazine, including Ezekiel Elliott, IsIsaiah Thomas, Caroline Wozniacki, and Julie and Zach Ertz.

There were also some big names in terms of hockey content as Joe Thornton, Brent Burns and six players from the US Women's Hockey Team (Brianna Decker, the Lamoureux twins, Meghan Duggan, Alex Rigsby, and Kacey Bellamy) all posed nude for the magazine.

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Be sure to go to ESPN's website to check out all of the pictures of the 23 athletes posing nude for the Body Issue.

(H/T: ESPN)