While the men's uniforms look more like this (I couldn't find a picture of the U.S. men's team, or really very many of any male Olympic beach volleyball players, though there's a butt-load of pictures of the women...I wonder why...):
I understand that sometimes men play shirtless, but I haven't actually seen a male match yet, and am just going off the fact that when I sat down in front of the TV last night with my parents who were watching the U.S. play Japan in women's beach volleyball and I wondered aloud about the skimpiness of the uniforms, they pointed out that the men wear knee-length board shorts and tank tops. How is wearing a bottom that is so small that they're constantly having to pick it out of their ass conducive to playing a good game of volleyball? It may be a boring sport (but then, what isn't?), but putting these women who have worked their asses off to be at the top of their game in tiny little bikinis like they're Sports Illustrated models is ridiculous and insulting. I don't know if the players have any say in the uniforms, but I can't imagine they were all that hyped about having perpetual wedgies on international television.
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Infuriating! It's comparable to men's basketball clothing-- their shorts have gotten longer and baggier over the years; compare what Wilt Chamberlain wore to what Kobe Bryant wears now (in direct contrast to the shrinkage of their cheerleaders' skirts as the years pass ... ) You can't just be talented if you're a female athlete. You have to be sexy, by media standards.
I will let the "boring sport" comment slide. I also totally agree with you, and wedgies are only one of the many problems of playing in tiny bikinis. Oh, and did you see the pics of President Bush playfully "patting" the backside of one of these lovely ladies? Priceless.
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