Of course, tight little shorts aren’t exactly new.
Although some teams didn’t get the memo.
Very glad to hear it. Thank you.
Why not just go back to all athletes competing nude, the way they did in the ancient Greek Olympics?
To be fair, it IS called “pole vaulting”.
Nothing wrong with the question, it’s the leering responses that I just found a bit, you know, ergh.
What were you expecting from a thread that has the words “little bikini bottoms” in the title?
Indeed. What is the world coming to when men can feel free to openly appreciate attractive women wearing micro-shorts in public? Harumph good sir, harumph!
Haters gonna hate.
Because sponsors would have a collective fit, of course.
Naw. Even if people competed in the nude, they could still have pictures of a Nike swoosh or a Gatorade G drawn on their skin.
The competitors could even charge more for sponsor logos, depending on how close to the naughty bits said logos were drawn.
I think you’d have to charge less. When players wear logos, it’s not so they can be seen by the people in the stands, it’s to show up on TV and in photographs. Published pictures would probably steer well clear of the naughty bits, and nearby logos would get less exposure.
One assumes that any cultural change that allowed us to go back to nude athletes would also be accompanied by a cultural change that would allow us to also show their nudity in the mass media.
There’s your solution. Instead of blocking out the naughty bits with the traditional black bar or blur, you cover them up with a computer-generated sponsors logo.
If male pole vaulters competed in the nude, some might have more of an anatomical disadvantage than others. Would probably really hurt to knock the crossbar off with that pole.
If she’s 5’ 10" or taller, I recommend she get a Wonder Woman screen test.
Speaking of nude male pole vaulters, here is French pole vaulter Renauld Lavillenie doing an ad for underware. I think he is the one who was trying to drum up sponsorship deals a few years back, so he had video of him running naked with his [vaulting] pole through parts of Paris.[spoiler]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHExPPWg6fU[/spoiler]It is probably not safe for work, even though the naughty bits are blurred. The NSFW is from the links to other penis related videos.
And I should note that most of the pictures linked in the original post are of a single vaulter, Yelena Isinbaeva. She has set multiple world records, indoors and out. I saw her a number of years ago at the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden in NYC. She looked awesome up close. Her outfit was tiny. The Brazilian vaulter, Fabiana Murer, had an even smaller one though. The linked photo is of her national team uniform, which is not as small as her usual outfit.
If my ass looked like that, I’d wear bikini bottoms all the time.
Well, she IS Brazilian, y’know, there’s an image to maintain…
I know I made that as a little joke, but I really am curious: how does less clothing make you less likely to chafe? Isn’t chafing from bare skin rubbing together?
flodnak is not the first person I’ve seen make that statement as if it’s something we all should know.
Not necessarily: poorly-fitting clothing and shoes cause chafing too.