Women's Beach Volleyball

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lauredhel · #26 Post by **lauredhel** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:22 pm

An over-generalization in one of the pictures there. Only Australia's women's basketball team has worn that spandex uniform as far as I can tell.

It's an Australian blog. All of the uniforms in that post are Australian, as mentioned in the post itself, apart from the Brazilian in the header (which is making a different but related point).

andrewjackson · #27 Post by **andrewjackson** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:56 am

lauredhel wrote:
An over-generalization in one of the pictures there. Only Australia's women's basketball team has worn that spandex uniform as far as I can tell.
It's an Australian blog. All of the uniforms in that post are Australian, as mentioned in the post itself, apart from the Brazilian in the header (which is making a different but related point).

I know its an Australian blog but the point didn't seem to me to be that Australia was sexualizing women athletes but that it was a more widespread attitude. I see nothing in the blog blaming the Australian sports federations but I see comments like, "Women in sports are promoted as sexualised bodies for ogling; men are promoted as performers. " It doesn't say Australian women, it says women.

I think that basketball picture was included because it reinforced the overall point but that may have been misleading. I see nothing in the blog saying that only Australian women are wearing this uniform.

I could be wrong. Maybe the blogger was only commenting on Australia's actions and not the wider Olympic sports world.

And I don't disagree with the overall point of the article. It is fairly obvious that it is true but the basketball example is a pretty limited piece of evidence.

Or I could be wrong.

TheConfessor · #28 Post by **TheConfessor** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:46 pm

silverscreenselect wrote:It's not just beach volleyball. Here are some pictures of athletes in other sports as well. Especially note the women's track uniforms as opposed to the men's; one would think both athletes would be wearing the same type uniform in order to reduce wind resistance as much as possible.

http://viv.id.au/blog/?p=2066

There are a few exceptions, such as this runner from Bahrain. She actually looked pretty good in the 200M semifinal. She might have reached the final with a bit less wind resistance.

VAdame · #29 Post by **VAdame** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:50 pm

It was kind of amusing to watch the Brazilian Women's Beach Volleyball team -- although their tops are sort of "stating the obvious"

Funny -- the men's uniforms say it on the front and the back:

JBillyGirl · #30 Post by **JBillyGirl** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:35 pm

Are any of the guys enjoying the wet white bikinis on the Americans right now?

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #31 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:57 pm

Spoiler

Yeah USA!

peacock2121 · #32 Post by **peacock2121** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:43 am

I love watching them play.

It did take me a few minutes to no longer concern myself with their bodies.

After that, they were just amazingly talented players.

MarleysGh0st · #33 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:02 am

TheConfessor wrote: There are a few exceptions, such as this runner from Bahrain. She actually looked pretty good in the 200M semifinal. She might have reached the final with a bit less wind resistance.

Goodness! But I suppose that some are shocked that she's not in a full birka--men can actually see her face!

Was Bahrain the country that they said had two women on their team for the first time? Two women who happened to be the daughters of the prime minister?

etaoin22 · #34 Post by **etaoin22** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:18 am

My ultimate feeling about beach volleyball:

Shouldn't be in the Olympics.

Why?

Gets such dense coverage that it keeps many other sports from getting any serious attention, or getting the kind of attention which they had before the eye candy events -- anything synchronized, rhythmic or in bikinis -- were added.

What happened to the 240 pound Bulgarians doing the clean-and-jerk?
Aside from being steroided up. And the men were even worse....

Should be in the Olympics.

Why?

Makes the profits which keeps whatever coverage there is, of the other stuff going. And at some point, logically, that will be complete real time HD of everything.

silverscreenselect · #35 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:34 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
TheConfessor wrote: There are a few exceptions, such as this runner from Bahrain. She actually looked pretty good in the 200M semifinal. She might have reached the final with a bit less wind resistance.

Goodness! But I suppose that some are shocked that she's not in a full birka--men can actually see her face!

Was Bahrain the country that they said had two women on their team for the first time? Two women who happened to be the daughters of the prime minister?

This woman almost made the finals of the event and beat out a lot of sprinters who were not dressed in as unfomfortable and non-aerodynamic manner as she was, so she certainly deserves her spot.

However, I doubt many women in Bahrain participate in sports or have the access to the type of training facilities needed to compete at that level, so clout does have its advantages in that regard.

SportsFan68 · #36 Post by **SportsFan68** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:36 am

TheConfessor wrote: She actually looked pretty good in the 200M semifinal. She might have reached the final with a bit less wind resistance.

When I saw this, I imagined the commitee which picked it -- a dozen or so men, including the designer, a sportswear maker, a religious representative, a government representative, the Olympic liaison, etc. -- all sitting around a nice conference room table in comfortable chairs with food on the sideboard which an Olympic-caliber competitor such as this woman wouldn't dream of eating until her competition days were over.