to think there's no need for this sport gear (VolleyBall)

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sorry - Daily Fail link

particularly the second woman in but basically all of them. What is the real need to have such low cut/high cut bottoms? Does it make them more aerodynamic or something?

Does anyone actually take women's volleyball seriously (except the competitors)? It seems to be just a big perve-a-thon.

The men don't wear skimpy, teeny weeny clothes, so I'm guessing aerodynamics have bugger all to do with it.
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It makes what should be a great Olympic event a bit cheap and tawdry.

I like the way the girl from Brazil has BRA across her top.
Is there a matching country for the bottom?

How on earth can they concentrate on their sport when they're worried about their kit being so skimpy!

It's not a good look for some of them.
However it's the only event we have tickets for

You'd have to make sure that you had a very good waxing

I thought exactly the same when I saw it. It just seemed really unnecessary.

i fully support these outfits.

The bottoms are so small!! Surely they'd just ride up all the time? I'd just about fit my foot in them

I saw this and am currently struggling to understand how this highlights the extra traffic on the roads during the Olympics.

Bet it was a man who came up with this.

They are just skimpy pants. Who wants the culmination of their sporting career to take place while wearing only skimpy pants and a crop top?

I'm amazed something that looks so trashy is in the Olympics.

YANBU I thought the same

I've always thought this was really weird. Like Orienteerer, I'd never be able to concentrate on my sport if I thought everyone was watching my jiggly bits bounce around . Track runners wear similar gear but they don't have any jiggly bits so not such an issue there .

I would hate to have to wear those bottoms to play a sport, they must be so uncomfortable.

I think that as long as they are wearing them because they choose to, then meh. i don't find it offensive or anything!

I think they look ok. In fact they look refreshingly 'normal' (Their figures, I mean)

They don't look particularly comfy, but then neither do spanx or high heels or push up bras or any number of things women wear.

God they don't look comfortable. You can see pudenda

Is it meant to look sexy? Will ask DH but to me it's not a flattering cut.

IIRC there are really restrictive regulations detailing how small the costumes have to be. It must be so unpleasant to wear so little in public for playing sport.

I wear bigger knickers under my clothes.

Assyria maybe sally

it's actually the official dress-code they could wear a one-piece swimsuit instead though

Silly women desperate for male approval. It's all the rage these days. They've been doing the same thing at Cambridge University this week.

It's post-feminism, isn't it. You flash your bits and feel empowered instead of demeaned

Well I can't see any advantage aerodynamically (is that even a word?) and they certainly don't look comfortable but as far as an item of clothing, it's no worse than a bikini.

I suppose it is beach volley ball and you might wear that on a beach but I swear I would wear a far more flattering version. I wouldn't jump aorund in a bikini myself because I am far too wobbly and people would gouge out their eyes

sallyingforth I think the bottoms just say 'brazillian'

Ew. Those must chafe, and I bet they spend a lot of time having to pick the bottoms out of their arse cracks.

I wonder whether the incidence of UTI's is higher in women's beach volleyball teams?

But a bikini is fit for purpose - it needs to expose as much of you to the sun as decently possible.

Whereas there's no fecking way it's comfortable to wear those pants for running and jumping around in.

I bet the Olympic committee responsible for designing the uniforms is full of dirty old men. Ditto the advertising and marketing departments. Oh wait, hang on...