Wouldn’t YOU wear a little bikini bottom, if you could get away with it?
And those rules have been changed to allow less revealing uniforms.
To add to your youtube searches: Amy Acuff high jump. You’re welcome.
I asked my wife that very question. She suggested that I wear sweatpants. For the general well being of the nation.
What do you mean by “getting away with it”? Not being laughed at, or not being arrested?
Personally, I can’t, but do anyway.
and I’m a dude, so…
Well, I’m glad that these accomplished young women are so appreciated for their hard work and obvious talent at a difficult sport.
Oh, wait.
I don’t know about the professional beach volleyball level, but pretty much the first thing the NCAA said when it announced that it was planning on making “sand volleyball” (they don’t call it “beach” because there’s no beach in, say, Lincoln, Nebraska) a scholarship sport and forming a committee to write a rulebook for it was that they would not allow the skimpy uniforms that the pros were wearing. The rule is supposed to be something like, when a player is standing on the ground, not only do the areas normally covered by a bikini have to be covered, but the area in-between has to be covered as well. (It doesn’t have to be a one-piece suit, so if a player jumps/dives for a ball, the stomach/navel area can be exposed briefly without penalty.)
You’d hear a whistling sound.
You’d hear a whistling sound.
How did THAT happen?
They gotta make that boring shit watchable somehow. I’d say mission accomplished. 
Seriously? Where has anyone doubted their athletic prowess. The purpose of the OP is merely asking why do professional athletes in a sport wear a specific item if clothing. I bet if the questions were about male sportsmen, no one would read anything into it.
If you were a fish, you’d be dead. You took that argument bait apparently without even thinking twice about it.
I did a little quick Googling and it seems that male pole vaulters wear anything from similar tiny bikini bottoms to ankle length pants. I didn’t count up the number of each item, but it looks like a lot of men wear bike shorts which go down to mid thigh. Almost all of the pants were snug fitting, or were worn over very snug fitting shorts.
There’s ankle length pants and there’s ankle length pants. Like you noted, it all depends on how “snug” you want to go.
I am now an, ahem, firm fan of ankle length pants.
What I saw looked quite G-rated.
Stay classy, Argentina… but it’s not beef you’re selling me with *that *one…