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I know, have experienced the dedication required — track & XC runner in HS, crew jock & an asst. to the fitness coach in college.
I believe Miss Iceland’s bf is a pro soccer player, and she was a secondary school pole vaulter. Both are only in their early 20s. She is petite, but very fit, with well developed shoulders, glutes, & legs. Video clip on her IG shows her sprinting very fast in her bare feet in a park. She also is a Nike brand ambassador. An Icelandic Lindsey Vonn, if you will.
I assume it’s her athletic build that the knothead pageant official criticized. Does appear she is a few pounds heavier since her Miss Iceland win, but to me it looks better and overall probably a healthier weight for her. Sounds like the publicity is getting her job interviews. Likely she has had it with the pageant whirl and was ready to move on.

The history of sports/athletics tells you that sports and games were developed to keep young men fit for war. They were NOT developed for women.
However women got into sports. As they were begun for men the most successful women in sports are those women with more of a man's body: minimum hips and minimum boobs.
The more, er, "full bodied" women aren't usually seen in ANY sports. Even women swimmers have huge backs and full-bodied muscles.

I remember seeing the first women weight lifters. Not the kind of body MOST women would like having. I can't think of too many men would would find the world class athletic woman's body particularly appealing. Mind you, there are men out there who would.

Even in dance the women do MUCH different things. In ballet women go "on-toe" and men don't.
Modern dance, whose name explains all, sees women and men doing different thing.s
However in ALL dance MEN lift WOMEN and toss them around. Even DANCE expresses the rather large differences between the genders.

Women can do what they want. That's a good thing. But, when they do men's sports they end up with men's damaged bodies and they WILL hit them when they are middle aged. "Hidden injuries" are a reality. The brutal treatment of those bodies, male or female will occur.

College age women who play soccer DO get those big hips. Fact of life...as they are NOT Olympic caliber. Playing soccer with that body has a large difference from hip to knee...not the straight line as men and women-built-like-men have and TREMENDOUS injuries to the knees occur. I saw in over and over again with the Latina women who played soccer.

No one can tell these women what they don't want to hear. I just hope some of them will be smart enough to realize the source of there 40-year-old pains and tell their daughters and nieces to do an activity that WON'T damage them.