Olympics: Women’s Track
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Serious fashion question. Why do the American women wear full coverage booty shorts but the Europeans wear bikini bottoms?
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Women's indoor volleyball is also a favorite.
"At the 2021 European Gymnastics Championships in Basel, Switzerland, ..., three members of the German women’s team ... performed their routines not in leotards, but in stunning unitards. Like its legless cousin, a gymnastics unitard is a spandex get-up, bedazzled with a metric ton of Swarovski crystals—but, unlike the traditional leotard, a unitard extends to the athlete’s ankles. This, the Germans explained, was in direct rebuke to what they called Sexualisierung [sexualization] in the sport, and while the International Gymnastics Federation permits this style already (usually for religious reasons), on a marquee team in a high-profile competition, it was a revolutionary sight."
[...] an official tweet from the Deutscher Turner-Bund (the German Gymnastics Federation) that described the decision to wear bodysuits as gegen Sexualisierung im Turnen, or “against sexualization in gymnastics.”
Track and field, swimming, and even rhythmic gymnastics all now enjoy the widespread popularity of legs covered in high-tech fabric, thus allowing athletes to concentrate fully on their sport (and, in some cases, improving their outcomes). [BTW], depending on the event, male gymnasts have also been competing in stirrup pants or shorts over their singlets (that’s a male version of the leotard; ...for decades.
— https://slate.com/culture/2021/04/gymnas…
Welcome to the 21st century, pervs 😊