Women athletes’ clothing

Coco51

Women essentially wearing no more than bra and knickers….

You mean….like they do at a beach? The scandal!

Coco51

Women essentially wearing no more than bra and knickers….

Which makes it seem ridiculous that Chloe Kelly got a yellow card for taking off her top.

nadateturbe

Nannymags I agree. If men can compete in shorts I don't see why females have to wear such revealing clothing.
I have just googled, and really some are ridiculous.
Females nowadays have a different attitude to clothing. Some of the leggings look like they have painted their skin.
It's just not attractive.

Have you considered that it’s the other way around? The men have to wear shorts otherwise their ‘bits’ would fall out when they were running. The women have no such concerns so they can wear the cooler, more streamlined garments ? Also there is choice. The women choose to wear those clothes because it makes it easier to do what they need to do!

I think your view is ridiculous OP. People wear far less on public beaches and athletes wear the clothing that makes their job the easiest. You don’t have to watch them!

Elegran

In the original Games in Ancient Greece, EVERY competitor was naked.

But they were all men. Plus, Lycra hadn’t been invented!

Women essentially wearing no more than bra and knickers….

I thought they were all there to compete in sports, not in a fashion show! I think they all look gorgeous with wonderful bodies. Much nicer and more natural than any plastic, pumped up celebrity wearing very little more!!

As a man, I was fascinated on last night’s South Today to hear a professor of sports science at the University of Portsmouth discussing, in some detail, how the work they had done to develop the very best support bras for the Lionesses had contributed to their success. As with the British Cycling Olympic team, every tiny advantage adds 0.1% or so to eventual success. Nothing obscene ur revealing, just clever academic research and development

Totally unreasonable - next there'll be a complaint about a woman taking a football shirt off to reveal a sports crop top underneath. Competition sportswear is designed to mimic nudity in the best interests of the athlete. There's nothing about the human body that's offensive.

Too easily offended. Belongs to the Outrage Club.

I agree with you biglouis - wonder why some people set out to " be offended" ? And on that, I always thought you had to " take offence" rather than " give offence" so surely people can choose whether to take offence, or not?

Some people are in the business of "being offended" and need to move on to the 21st century. I have a deep love of the fashions of the past but I agree with other posters that there is nothing obscene about athlete's costumes.

In one sense it can be argued that the creator (whoever you concieve s/he/it made our bodies but a human being makes our clothes. They are only a covering.

Chardy Thank you so, so much for posting that article. A lot of things in it that are pertinent to this thread. In my OP I didn’t dare write some of the words that have been written in the article as I’m sure it would have not been received well by some of the Gransnetters! Men’s athletics is now on TV….

www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/women-athletes-uniform-changes-1.6122725

Watching KJT doing the heptathlon. She wore the sleeveless crop-top for the running and high jump - they all did. But for the shot putt she wore a short-sleeved crop-top - some others did, some stayed with traditional crop-top.

I can’t say I have noticed anything at all different but then I only watch certain sports so perhaps I missed them. The swimmers certainly looked fine, very well covered.

Thanks everyone for what you’ve all said. OK, perhaps my use of the word obscene was too much but I didn’t say the clothing was such. I said it was “verging on”. And bodyshaming. No!! I’m sad that anyone should think that’s what I was doing. These are all magnificently healthy, toned individuals, men and women. No shame in that. I still maintain that the womens clothing is too skimpy in many instances and am gratified to note that this has brought up the broader subject of disparity in clothing between the sexes. If, as some have suggested, this is a matter in which some athletes have no choice that is a whole new subject for debate. And comparing some athletes clothing to beachwear? That’s an interesting one. Yes, it is so. But I maintain that the frequent extreme physical posturing that many athletes achieve in the performance of their activities should necessitate clothing that is different from clothing used to cover the body in a beach setting. I suppose the answer lies with the athletes. If they truly, truly are happy that’s fine. But if they’re not they should be able to wear whatever they like as long as they’re capable of being accurately judged without being fined as I see one of you has pointed out. To be excluded from a sport, as I’m sure some societies would demand, simply because of the clothing would be a sad state of affairs.

Thankyou Maggie, I couldn't quite remember which team it was but yes Norway. I remember the case and support their stance.

There was a movement a few years ago encouraging countries to have a selection of women athletes' attire as some of the runners didn't like the skimpier clothing.
Am I correct in thinking the female runners are clothed differently from the throwers? Long and high jumpers different again? I will keep an eye out in the next few days.
In answer to the question, no I don't find it obscene. But I do feel it might put some females off pursuing athletics.

If it were the women’s choice to wear revealing outfits fair enough, but it often isn’t. Modern athletes should be able to choose clothing they want to perform in and not have to wear skimpy outfits imposed upon them by their governing bodies.

The Norwegian women’s beach handball team wore shorts instead of the required bikini bottoms in competition last year and were all fined. This led to protests and a long overdue change of rules by the International Federation so that women can now compete in shorts. I doubt their performance has deteriorated.

It's a funny use of the word 'obscene'.

In the original Games in Ancient Greece, EVERY competitor was naked.

The word gymnastics comes from the Greek words “gymnos” (γυμνός - naked, nude, bare, stripped) and “gymnazo” (γυμνάζω - meaning roughly to train or exercise naked.)^

I agree with you.
I wouldn't say it's obscene.
But, I think its a bit disturbing the way women's gymnastic clothing is so skimpy compared to men's gymnastic clothing.
I feel sorry for the women doing the splits. How would men feel if they risked their meat and two veg falling out the sides because theyre forced to wear skimpy bits of narrow gussetted high cut frabric? All unde the excuse of wanting to see 'form'.
No problem for them - they get to wear the leotards with lycra shorts style that covers everything with no risk of wardrobe malfunction.
I believe a lot of gymnast mums ate trying to change things, as there's a lot of bullying that takes place towards gymnasts such as their body weight and the clothes they're forced to wear.

imaroundWed 03-Aug-22 04:02:04
Not obscene. Not any different than swimwear.
I agree with those about the disparity between men's and women's. THAT is what is obscene. Women are forced to wear smaller and form fitting clothing.

I agree with what you have said - though some of the male runners wear such close-fitting shorts that nothing beneath them is left to the imagination, swaying from side to side as they run!