withdrawing from competition: brave or feeble?

[Alikado]

I think it is the positions rather than the clothes.
Some women believe the clothes sexualise them though I still believe women's gymnastics will be the best erotica available to watch in the same room as a consenting female!

If it is young girls that turn you on.

[Hamble]

The highest level is the Olympics, fr which she has gained three gold medals and one bronze. Most of her medals have been won In the World event. She is very good, not the highest - but deserving of her medals. For a gymnast she has now reached retiring age. Nadia Comaneci set an extremely high standard of gymnastics that is unsurpassed today.

Simone Biles is the best.
You cannot deduct marks for being Black.

[Hamble]

If it is young girls that turn you on.

They are young to me too though the average age has risen over decades.

"Time for the end of the teen gymnast

In the lead-up to the Tokyo Olympics, stories were being written about the increasing age of female gymnasts, pointing out that the sport, once thought to be the exclusive domain of young teens, can be done — and done exceptionally well — by gymnasts who are in their late teens or even their 20s. After all, the average age for a female gymnast in these Olympics is just under 22 years. But the focus has been almost exclusively on the end of a gymnast’s career. Far less attention is being paid to how early a gymnast’s specialization starts and how that has the potential to affect how one’s final years look. There’s even less focus on how the sport can better accommodate gymnasts so they may extend their careers beyond what had long been thought impossible."


https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...-age-olympics/

[Hamble]

The fabulous Simone Biles 2019.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fdp8SVOSF4

[Toodles McGinty]

You make a good point about the clothes women wear. The beach volleyball team were fined for not wearing bikini bottoms, quite unfairly IMO. It's always been at the back of my mind that many of the sports women wear quite sexualised outfits. I know I am probably a bit of a prude when it comes to this, It goes back to my childhood when I was mortally offended by the high cut legs of the Tiller girls costumes. The gymnasts leotards are particularly disconcerting.... sometimes you don't know where to look!. It's not that they don't look great but I often wondered who the outfits were for. It seemed to me it was more for oglers than anything else. I haven't watched a lot of the Olympics but there was at least one gymnast who wore a full body suit and she looked great. (could have been the Germans as stated above). I hope women take more of a stand over this and get to wear what they want, whatever that is.

The women's beach volleyball shorts are ridiculous. Even if the men wore the same, which of course would never happen, it would still be purely for the benefit of those leering rather than genuinely interested in the sport.

Even then, I'd say if they wanted to wear those 'shorts', that would be fair enough, but they've been more than vocal in their objections.

I'm not a prude by a long way. But some of the outfits are purely sexualisation.

[Alikado]

They are young to me too though the average age has risen over decades.

"Time for the end of the teen gymnast

In the lead-up to the Tokyo Olympics, stories were being written about the increasing age of female gymnasts, pointing out that the sport, once thought to be the exclusive domain of young teens, can be done — and done exceptionally well — by gymnasts who are in their late teens or even their 20s. After all, the average age for a female gymnast in these Olympics is just under 22 years. But the focus has been almost exclusively on the end of a gymnast’s career. Far less attention is being paid to how early a gymnast’s specialization starts and how that has the potential to affect how one’s final years look. There’s even less focus on how the sport can better accommodate gymnasts so they may extend their careers beyond what had long been thought impossible."


https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...-age-olympics/

The average age dropped dramatically with Comaneci and Olga Korbet and they were pumped full of puberty suppressing drugs to keep their elfin looks.

[jamyramy]

well as the issue has arisen about dress,well just take a look on your average stret these days,keeping fit has been hijacked and sexualised by the fashionistas,and most out there sporting the latest dont even touch a gym bar,but happy to show what theyve had for lunch.!haha

[local]

It's a woman who runs UK womens gymnastics, Jane Allen.

[silver fox]

The women's beach volleyball shorts are ridiculous. Even if the men wore the same, which of course would never happen, it would still be purely for the benefit of those leering rather than genuinely interested in the sport.

Even then, I'd say if they wanted to wear those 'shorts', that would be fair enough, but they've been more than vocal in their objections.

I'm not a prude by a long way. But some of the outfits are purely sexualisation.

The thing about beach volley ball dress "code" is totally unnecessary, female track athletes for instance, even within the same team, wear an assortment of gear, from the very briefest to occasionally a full body suit, granted the full body suit is usually on religious grounds, but a female Australian track athlete tried the full body suit for aerodynamic reasons, it was quickly realised that yes aerodynamics were better, but the heat build up with the full suit destroyed any advantage.

For those who care to check, the first instance was Cathy Freeman at the 2000 Olympics, frankly if the track athletes can wear what they wish why shouldn't other athletes wear what suits them best? within reason of course.

One for the perverts, in the original Olympics athletes performed naked, that would set some off good style.

[Toodles McGinty]

One for the perverts, in the original Olympics athletes performed naked, that would set some off good style.

Ew, the jiggling.

[jamyramy]

Ew, the jiggling.

yeh blue balls ,willy an titty slap spring to mind!