It feels like sports overly sexualize the athletes, tbh. Like I don't care if the athletes themselves choose this, but I suspect that it's a marketing thing.
I recall this getting brought up quite a bit. Beach volleyball women have to compete in pretty small bikinis, and with no reason ever given. One team was pretty dead set on competing in shorts, but I don't think it was allowed.
Women's water polo uniforms are terrible this year, just look way too revealing and uncomfortable.
Gymnastics I have no clue because there's a big aesthetic component to it, and they're all sequined and cool. I don't think I've seen any competitors complain about them.
The men's gymnasts typically wear leos, they just also wear pants or shorts in addition. At least, that was the case when I was briefly a male gymnast in high school and had some pretty massive leotard wedgies
Ofc that was just my experience, I suppose it could be different for Olympic athletes
why the fuck are women expected to do sports in leotards in the first place, men aren't. Let them wear wrestling singlets or something.
It feels like sports overly sexualize the athletes, tbh. Like I don't care if the athletes themselves choose this, but I suspect that it's a marketing thing.
I recall this getting brought up quite a bit. Beach volleyball women have to compete in pretty small bikinis, and with no reason ever given. One team was pretty dead set on competing in shorts, but I don't think it was allowed.
Women's water polo uniforms are terrible this year, just look way too revealing and uncomfortable.
Gymnastics I have no clue because there's a big aesthetic component to it, and they're all sequined and cool. I don't think I've seen any competitors complain about them.
The men's gymnasts typically wear leos, they just also wear pants or shorts in addition. At least, that was the case when I was briefly a male gymnast in high school and had some pretty massive leotard wedgies
Ofc that was just my experience, I suppose it could be different for Olympic athletes