英语文摘:Tiger Woods shown shirtless, pumping iron

BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Tiger Woods is photographed shirtless and pumping iron on the February issue of Vanity Fair.

The menacing shot, by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, was taken in January 2006, long before the world learned the married father of two cheated on his wife with a harem of hotties.

Tiger Woods reacts to a missed birdie putt during the PGA Championship golf tournament in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in this August 11, 2007 file photo

    In addition to "raw" and "never-before-seen" photos, the issue features an essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger, who explores the 33-year-old golfer's fall from grace.

    While Woods attempted to live a largely private life, Bissinger writes that it was inevitable for the golfer's personal and professional lives to collide. "In the end it was the age-old clash of image versus reality, the compartmentalization of two different lives that inevitably merge at some certain point, whoever you are."