Posted on 08/13/2016 7:18:11 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
...Yet, the big-money swimsuit companies — so crucial to the sport's financial viability — are always pressing to show off their high-tech chops, which are severely crimped by rules that restrict the size and fabrics for competition swimsuits...
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But what about the 'big bone' girls and the muzzies?
Oh, my. The pictures in those articles look like the swimsuits could come off at any minute, like a dive into the water would cause the swimsuit to fall off.
I want to see swimsuits that cover and stay in place.
At the high school I attended,the males swam nekked!
Burkinis for all, soon
This man might have a future in a Trump Administration.
"It's not that we are opposed to science, but we want the performance on the athletes to be gauged on their hard work, on what they're able to accomplish without technological aids, specifically swimsuits," said Chuck Wielgus, executive director of USA Swimming. "The swimming suit manufacturers are always pushing the envelope, and that's understandable, and then they become sponsors of governing bodies. This is what happens in Washington D.C., right, with our government?"
And next, you’re going to tell us you always lost the swimming competitions because of too much drag ...
If a woman decides she's a man that day, does she have to cover her upper body?
This is a profoundly ignorant statement, unless he is arguing that Olympic athletes return to the "old" practices, where they competed in the nude.
Technology advances. Should a pole vaulter not use the latest carbon fiber vaulting pole, or a sailor the latest in sail cloth technology and aerodynamic design. There are few sports where technological aids don't matter, from shoes, to socks, to diet, and I presume the latest in jocks and sports bras.
The water was very cold and shrinkage was the issue!
We also played water polo sans suit.
You get used to it, if you want to win.
There is only one way to fairly compare pure athletic prowess from competitor to competitor.
Compete as in the first Olympics (or so legend tells us).
But swimming events only. Please do NOT do this for women’s basketball or baseball!
They say the original Olympics, all male, all the time. Spectators too.
There was the problem with a gold winning runner.
His coach was his mother! They noticed as SHE jumped the fence to congratulate HER son!
By the way, if you have never seen it before, you will not know what it is!
Fairly common in the Midwest after WWII.
Olympic events were originally performed nude. That would help ratings and decommercialize the games.
1960-70’s , the Glenbrook schools (Glenview-Northbrook).
Was and still is a nice area.
So how did Grunt get in? My father was career Navy, he was always near a Navy base. (Glenview)
I would think running the hurdles nude for a guy could be a bit painful...
If they decide to be a man that day they will still have man-boobs, so they will be allowed to wear a “bro-kini.”
No but then she has to swim against Michael Phelps so nobody has bothered to do it.
He just has to jump higher ;-)
Male swimmer suits coverups quite a bit even knowing they are tight. It’s the male diver suits and water polo suits that you question. There is no modesty in the male diver and water polo team suits
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