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[plasmo]

The solution to the hi-tech swimsuit problem at the Olympics

They're still whining about the LZR swimsuits.

Wouldn't the easiest solution be to just have them all swim naked? No technical doping at all then. Sure, they could shave, but all swimmers do already, and after that, you're pretty much out of options.

The prudish Americans might have a problem with their naughty bits showing, but they could just black them out on TV. Most of the rest of the world is fine with people swimming naked, though.

Heck, they should have all the events be naked, just like the good ol' days.

 

[AeroJonesy]

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Only 79 of the 108 records were set by people wearing LZR suits. All 108 were set by people with 2 arms. Clearly the problem is in the number of limbs.

 

[pancakeman]

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Two big, sweaty naked guys rolling around on a mat = vomit inducing. I think clothed wrestling is fine, thank you.


Oh, and I'm quite sure the corss-country skiers would not enjoy being naked.

 

[BobCox2]

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A speedo cache-sexe should be allowed not for Modesty but just as I know from personal experience a guys junk can get tangled up and hurt you without it.

 

[stillman]

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Plasmo you can't be serious? What about the thousands of people in the stadium? You could expect to never see a record broken again since only nudists would compete.

 

[HegemonKhan]

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plasmo already made my comment with his/her "good ole days", but meh....

nude olympics....that would be going back to their origin in athens greece with them competing in the nude as they did back than.

girls would love it.....now..just as they must of back than.

and guys would love it too as we now let females compete as well, where in ancient times, i'm pretty sure only the males competed.

 

[Garbad_the_Weak]

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plasmo already made my comment with his/her "good ole days", but meh....

nude olympics....that would be going back to their origin in athens greece with them competing in the nude as they did back than.

girls would love it.....now..just as they must of back than.

and guys would love it too as we now let females compete as well, where in ancient times, i'm pretty sure only the males competed.

Girls back then probably weren't allowed in public. And if they had sexual feelings back then everyone thought they were obviously sluts, and thus ok to rape.

 

[TurbulentTurtle]

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Hmm... gymnastics...

 

[HegemonKhan]

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err..i was going to respond to garbad's post...but i for some reason thought this was rome...olympics=ancient greece..NOT romans...oops...almost messed up.

i'm not too sure about greek society. and each greek city state was different. though i'm quite possitive greek woman had some freedom at least to do stuff outside the house.

everyone in ancient greece were promiscious, the problem for women is that a good many greeks were homosexual.
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now if we were talking about rome... oooo there's a lot of dirty stuff about the romans and rome.....archalogists have found grafetti everywhere on ancient roman buildings or pieces of them. public tavern' signs had pictures of a phalus on them...etc...

 

[BobCox2]

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FYI all, Women have been in it from the start. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games

The Games first started in Olympia, Greece, in a sanctuary site for the Greek deities near the towns of Elis and Pisa (both in Elis on the peninsula of Peloponnesos). The first Games began as an annual foot race of young women in competition for the position of the priestess for the goddess, Hera [4] and a second race was instituted for a consort for the priestess who would participate in the religious traditions at the temple.[5]
The Heraea Games, the first recorded competition for women in the Olympic Stadium were held as early as the sixth century B.C. It originally consisted of foot races only, as did the competition for males. Some texts, including Pausanias's Description of Greece, c. AD 175, state that Hippodameia gathered a group known as the "Sixteen Women" and made them administrators of the Heraea Games, out of gratitude for her marriage to Pelops. Other texts related to the Elis and Pisa conflict, indicate that the "Sixteen Women" were peace-makers from Pisa and Elis and, because of their political competence, became administrators of the Heraea Games.

Nudity was added later:
The Greek tradition of athletic nudity was first introduced in 720 BC, either by the Spartans or by the Megarian Orsippus and this was adopted early in the Olympics as well. The reasoning for the development of this tradition is unclear....
The athletes usually competed naked, not only as the weather was appropriate but also as the festival was meant to celebrate, in part, the achievements of the human body. Olive oil was occasionally used by the competitors, not only to keep skin smooth but also to provide an appealing look for the participants. Competitors may have worn a kynodesme to restrain the penis.

 

[Tanooki]

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I dunno.. the kynodesme seems to give an unfair advantage to uncircumcised athletes...

 

[lAmebAdger]

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Girls back then probably weren't allowed in public. And if they had sexual feelings back then everyone thought they were obviously sluts, and thus ok to rape.

that's a sack of bull....

that's athens we're talking about here. Women weren't as restricted in antique Greece as they were in other places...



if they have such problems with everyone wearing diff. suits, why don't they introduce somekind of swim uniform for everyone?

 

[Garbad_the_Weak]

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The thing is nude competitions would probably get a lot better ratings. It would be socially acceptable softcore pron.

 

[Amra]

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Only 79 of the 108....

Nearly 3/4 is just an "only"? :scratchchin:

 

[WildBerry]

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Girls back then probably weren't allowed in public. And if they had sexual feelings back then everyone thought they were obviously sluts, and thus ok to rape.

Even if we assume a dominant opinion of misogyny ("we can rape a slut, she likes it anyway"), we cannot dismiss the fact that rape was first and foremost a crime of property and the property obliging would not make the crime go away even back in the day.

Oh, and I'm quite sure the corss-country skiers would not enjoy being naked.

If you're a masochist enough to do a 31 miles a bit under two hours you're (you've got) nuts enough to do it naked.

that's athens we're talking about here. Women weren't as restricted in antique Greece as they were in other places...

Even if Garbad made a huge hyperbole, they were pretty restricted all right. You do realise they had no right to, say, property, in Athens?

 

[lAmebAdger]

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pretty restricted? maybe by today's standards, yea..

but they had rights, albeit not enough for the modern woman who even has the luxury of voting..., but they were above slaves and the like
i'd still say that they were free to express feeling, even sexual ones, and also they were certainly allowed in public...

this stands in contrast with what garbad said, i'd assume

 

[WildBerry]

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pretty restricted? maybe by today's standards, yea..

but they had rights, albeit not enough for the modern woman who even has the luxury of voting..., but they were above slaves and the like
i'd still say that they were free to express feeling, even sexual ones, and also they were certainly allowed in public...

this stands in contrast with what garbad said, i'd assume

Yes, they were allowed to go out.

She [an Athenian woman -WB] could buy groceries at the local market but needed the approval of a male guardian to do anything more.

On the other hand, anything more than what would be deemed necessary for the caring for the husband's oikos would be held suspect, grounds for shunning and followingly potentially violent reprisal by the husband that would not be condemned.

Athenian women were subject to a life of subservience. They were not supposed to leave the house save for the general locality (although some country women were allowed a bit more freedom), their domestic work was minimal depending on the number of slaves she had.